James Mcbey Morocco
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Drypoint, Etching
20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
India Ink, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Drypoint, Etching
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Etching
People Also Browsed
1920s American Modern Portrait Prints
Etching, Drypoint
1920s American Modern Landscape Prints
Drypoint, Etching
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Books
Paper
1740s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Oil
Vintage 1920s European Renaissance Benches
Gold Leaf
19th Century American Modern Portrait Prints
Etching, Drypoint
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Modern Tableware
Stainless Steel
1890s Victorian Portrait Paintings
Watercolor
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Prints
Drypoint, Etching
1880s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Etching, Drypoint
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
1770s Baroque Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Chalk
2010s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Paper
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Pencil
Recent Sales
1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1930s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1920s Modern Portrait Prints
Etching
1920s Modern Portrait Prints
Etching
1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
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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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