Robert Conover
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Woodcut
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
Woodcut
20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Black and White, Lithograph
1950s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
India Ink, Watercolor
1950s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
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Early 20th Century French Renaissance Revival Religious Items
Bronze
1980s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
1990s Modern Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Pottery
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Side Tables
Bronze
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Vintage 1950s American Animal Sculptures
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1960s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Paper, Ink, Aquatint, Etching
20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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Early 20th Century Swiss Black Forest Mounted Objects
Bronze
20th Century Moroccan Moorish Lanterns
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Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
Late 20th Century Landscape Prints
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Interior Paintings
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Early 20th Century English Gothic Revival Religious Items
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
1960s Modern Portrait Prints
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1960s Modern Portrait Prints
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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A Close Look at modern Art
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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