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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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Style: Modern
La Rose

La Rose

By Jean Tannous

Located in Atlanta, GA

Born in Byblos lebanon, in 1946, is a contemporary plastician artist franco-canadian. Artistic journey Early days (1970-1975) Paris (1976-2001) Quebec...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Un Portrait

Un Portrait

By Jean Tannous

Located in Atlanta, GA

Born in Byblos lebanon, in 1946, is a contemporary plastician artist franco-canadian. Artistic journey Early days (1970-1975) Paris (1976-2001) Quebec (2002 - present) China (2011-...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Plein Soleil

Plein Soleil

By Jean Tannous

Located in Atlanta, GA

Born in Byblos lebanon, in 1946, is a contemporary plastician artist franco-canadian. Artistic journey Early days (1970-1975) Paris (1976-2001) Quebec...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Forme et Couleur

Forme et Couleur

By Jean Tannous

Located in Atlanta, GA

Born in Byblos lebanon, in 1946, is a contemporary plastician artist franco-canadian. Artistic journey Early days (1970-1975) Paris (1976-2001) Quebec (2002 - present) China (2011-...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Belle Fleur

Belle Fleur

By Jean Tannous

Located in Atlanta, GA

Born in Byblos lebanon, in 1946, is a contemporary plastician artist franco-canadian. Artistic journey Early days (1970-1975) Paris (1976-2001) Quebec (2002 - present) China (2011-...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

4 x 4
4 x 4

4 x 4

By Jean Tannous

Located in Atlanta, GA

Born in Byblos lebanon, in 1946, is a contemporary plastician artist franco-canadian. Artistic journey Early days (1970-1975) Paris (1976-2001) Quebec (2002 - present) China (2011-...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty

By LeRoy Neiman

Located in Missouri, MO

LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012) Statue of Liberty, July 4, 1986 Signed and Dated Lower Left Acrylic Paint and Chalk 24 x 16 inches 37.5 x 29.25 inches with frame Mr. Neiman's ki...

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1980s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Chalk, Acrylic

Alphonsine
Alphonsine

Alphonsine

By Robert Kushner

Located in Missouri, MO

Robert Kushner (American, b. 1949) Alphonsine, 1983 30 x 22 inches without frame 32.75 x 25 inches with frame Titled Lower Left Signed and dated Mid Lower Right A member of the Patt...

Category

1980s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Yellow Store Front, Project, 1980
Yellow Store Front, Project, 1980

Yellow Store Front, Project, 1980

By Christo

Located in Missouri, MO

Yellow Store Front, Project, 1980 By. Christo (Bulgarian, 1935-2020) Signed Lower Right Titled Lower Left Unframed: 32 x 23.5 inches Framed: 32.5 x 24 inches An environmental instal...

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1980s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Pickaxe (Spitzhacke) Superimposed on a Drawing of the Site by E.L. Grimm
Pickaxe (Spitzhacke) Superimposed on a Drawing of the Site by E.L. Grimm

Pickaxe (Spitzhacke) Superimposed on a Drawing of the Site by E.L. Grimm

By Claes Oldenburg

Located in Missouri, MO

Pickaxe (Spitzhacke) Superimposed on a Drawing of the Site by E.L. Grimm, 1982 By Claes Oldenburg (Swedish, American, 1929-2022) Unframed: 26" x 20" Framed: 28.75" x 22.75" Signed and Dated Lower Right Whimsical sculpture of pop culture objects, many of them large and out-of-doors, is the signature work of Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg who became one of America's leading Pop Artists. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a diplomat, and during Claes' childhood moved his family from Stockholm to a variety of locations including Chicago where the father was general consul of Sweden and where Oldenburg spent most of his childhood. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, and then Yale University where he studied literature and art history, graduating in 1950, the same year Claes became an American citizen. Returning to Chicago, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1952 to 1954 and also worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau. He opened his own studio, and in 1953, some of his satirical drawings were included in his first group show at the Club St. Elmo, Chicago. He also painted at the Oxbow School of Painting in Michigan. In 1956, he moved to New York where he drew and painted while working as a clerk in the art libraries of Cooper-Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Selling his first artworks during this time, he earned 25 dollars for five pieces. Oldenburg became friends with numerous artists including Jim Dine, Red Grooms and Allan Kaprow, who with his "Happenings" was especially influential on Oldenburg's interest in environmental art. Another growing interest was soft sculpture, and in 1957, he created a piece later titled Sausage, a free-hanging woman's stocking stuffed with newspaper. In 1959, he had his first one-man show, held at the Judson Gallery at Washington Square. He exhibited wood and newspaper sculpture and painted papier-mache objects. Some viewers of the exhibit commented how refreshing Oldenburg's pieces were in contrast to the Abstract Expressionism, a style which much dominated the art world. During this time, he was influenced by the whimsical work of French artist, Bernard Buffet, and he experimented with materials and images of the junk-filled streets of New York. In 1960, Oldenburg created his first Pop-Art Environments and Happenings in a mock store full of plaster objects. He also did Performances with a cast of colleagues including artists Lucas Samaras, Tom Wesselman, Carolee Schneemann, Oyvind Fahlstrom and Richard Artschwager, dealer Annina Nosei, critic Barbara Rose, and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer. His first wife (1960-1970) Pat Muschinski, who sewed many of his early soft sculptures, was a constant performer in his Happenings. This brash, often humorous, approach to art was at great odds with the prevailing sensibility that, by its nature, art dealt with "profound" expressions or ideas. In December 1961, he rented a store on Manhattan's Lower East Side to house "The Store," a month-long installation he had first presented at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. This installation was stocked with sculptures roughly in the form of consumer goods. Oldenburg moved to Los Angeles in 1963 "because it was the most opposite thing to New York I could think of". That same year, he conceived AUT OBO DYS, performed in the parking lot of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in December 1963. In 1965 he turned his attention to drawings and projects for imaginary outdoor monuments. Initially these monuments took the form of small collages such as a crayon image of a fat, fuzzy teddy bear looming over the grassy fields of New York's Central Park (1965) and Lipsticks in Piccadilly Circus, London (1966). Oldenburg realized his first outdoor public monument in 1967; Placid Civic Monument took the form of a Conceptual performance/action behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with a crew of gravediggers digging a 6-by-3-foot rectangular hole in the ground. Many of Oldenburg's large-scale sculptures of mundane objects elicited public ridicule before being embraced as whimsical, insightful, and fun additions to public outdoor art. From the early 1970s Oldenburg concentrated almost exclusively on public commissions. Between 1969 and 1977 Oldenburg had been in a relationship with Hannah Wilke, feminist artist, but in 1977 he married Coosje van Bruggen, a Dutch-American writer and art historian who became collaborator with him on his artwork. He had met her in 1970, when she curated an exhibition for him at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Their first collaboration came when Oldenburg was commissioned to rework Trowel I, a 1971 sculpture of an oversize garden tool, for the grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands. Oldenburg has officially signed all the work he has done since 1981 with both his own name and van Bruggen's. In 1988, the two created the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota that remains a staple of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden as well as a classic image of the city. Typewriter Eraser...

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20th Century Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Etching, Aquatint, Photogravure

Parakeet

Parakeet

By Aster da Fonseca

Located in Kansas City, MO

Aster da Fonseca Parakeet Acrylic on Tape on Paper Year: 2022 Size: 19x24in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1365 collage acrylic paint tape nature landscape bird tree beaut...

Category

2010s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Tape, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Portrait of Victory
Portrait of Victory

Portrait of Victory

By Paul Pletka

Located in Missouri, MO

"Portrait of Victory" By Paul Pletka (1946- ) Image Size: 30" x 23" Framed: 42" x 36" Signed: Lower Right Paul Pletka is a neo-surrealistic painter inspired by his fascination from early childhood with Native Americans of the Southwest. His style, described as neo-surrealistic, "is both realistic and deeply spiritual, being highly sensitive to the inner thoughts of Native Americans." Paul Pletka was born in southern California in 1946 and currently resides in New Mexico. After high school, he won a scholarship to Arizona State University and then transferred to Colorado State University, but feeling disappointed in his college art training, did not paint seriously until the late 1960s. His works of art have been exhibited in one-man shows in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, New York, Kansas and Missouri continuously since 1964. Pletka's paintings are in more than 40 private and public art collections including the Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO; Mel Pfaelzer Collection, University of Northern Illinois, De Kalb; the Norton Gallery & School of Art, West Palm Beach...

Category

20th Century Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Freedom Tower
Freedom Tower

Freedom Tower

By Yeji Moon

Located in New York, NY

In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly ...

Category

2010s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Plexiglass, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil

Chrysler Building at Sunset
Chrysler Building at Sunset

Chrysler Building at Sunset

By Yeji Moon

Located in New York, NY

In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly ...

Category

2010s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Plexiglass, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil

Seoul Panorama, Namsam Tower
Seoul Panorama, Namsam Tower

Seoul Panorama, Namsam Tower

By Yeji Moon

Located in New York, NY

In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly ...

Category

2010s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Plexiglass, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil

Seoul Panorama, Lotte Tower
Seoul Panorama, Lotte Tower

Seoul Panorama, Lotte Tower

By Yeji Moon

Located in New York, NY

In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly ...

Category

2010s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Plexiglass, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil

Gamcheon Village at Sunset
Gamcheon Village at Sunset

Gamcheon Village at Sunset

By Yeji Moon

Located in New York, NY

In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly changing world. Inspired by her upbringing in a small neighborhood in Korea and her experiences with Habitat for Humanity, she seeks to immortalize disappearing places by creating works of art that connect and preserve memories. Her three-dimensional compositions are created using newspaper...

Category

2010s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Plexiglass, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil

The City View from Brooklyn
The City View from Brooklyn

The City View from Brooklyn

By Yeji Moon

Located in New York, NY

In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly changing world. Inspired by her upbringing in a small neighborhood in Korea and her experiences with Habitat for Humanity, she seeks to immortalize disappearing places by creating works of art that connect and preserve memories. Her three-dimensional compositions are created using newspaper...

Category

2010s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil, Plexiglass

One World Trade Center at Night

One World Trade Center at Night

By Yeji Moon

Located in New York, NY

In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly changing world. Inspired ...

Category

2010s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil, Paint

The Red and Black No. 52
The Red and Black No. 52

The Red and Black No. 52

By Robert Motherwell

Located in Houston, TX

Robert Motherwell's "The Red and Black No.52" is an abstract collage that incorporates oil based etching ink, pasted papers, and aquatint on paper. The piece was created between the ...

Category

1980s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Aquatint

Modern Art, Portrait Art, Black & White Painting-Big Hats And Backgrounds Black
Modern Art, Portrait Art, Black & White Painting-Big Hats And Backgrounds Black

Modern Art, Portrait Art, Black & White Painting-Big Hats And Backgrounds Black

By Addison Jones

Located in Delaware , OH

Modern Art, Portrait Art, Black & White Painting-Big Hats And Backgrounds Black A B O U T T H I S P I E C E : “Big Hats and Backgrounds Black (Hannah-A2)” is ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Paper, Adhesive, Coating, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Arch...

Black and Purple Painting, Mixed Media Art, Modern Art-Raining Purple
Black and Purple Painting, Mixed Media Art, Modern Art-Raining Purple

Black and Purple Painting, Mixed Media Art, Modern Art-Raining Purple

By Addison Jones

Located in Delaware , OH

Black and Purple Painting, Mixed Media Art, Modern Art-Raining Purple A B O U T T H I S P I E C E: "Raining Purple, (Cortney+Bethyie-91A1)" is original purple mixed media Art piece ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Memories #2
Memories #2

Memories #2

By Romare Bearden

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Memories #2 Year: 1981 Medium: Ink, Dye Paint and Collage, signed left Paper Size: 8.8 x 9.8 inches Frame Size: 11 x 15 inches

Category

1980s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Dye, Ink

Sunrise Coffee
Sunrise Coffee

Sunrise Coffee

By Romare Bearden

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Sunrise Coffee Year: 1970 Medium: Collage and Mixed Media on Masonite, signed left and verso Size: 18 in. x 21 in. (45.72 cm x 53.34 cm) Frame Si...

Category

1960s Modern Mixed Media

Materials

Masonite

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Find a wide variety of authentic Modern mixed media available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add mixed media created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Scott Troxel, Sunil Das, Jean Tannous, and Natasha Zupan. Frequently made by artists working with Mixed Media, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern mixed media, so small editions measuring 0.6 inches across are also available. Prices for mixed media made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11 and tops out at $235,000, while the average work sells for $1,852.