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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1980s Contemporary Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Graphite
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1970s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1950s Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
1960s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph
People Also Browsed
Vintage 1950s French Modern Prints
Glass, Paper
1960s Cubist Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph
20th Century Ethiopian Tribal Tribal Art
Wood
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Vintage 1960s Tribal Art
Steel
1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Etching
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Marble, Bronze
Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art
Metal, Bronze
Mid-20th Century Cubist Still-life Prints
Paper, Lithograph
1990s Fauvist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Still-life Prints
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Pop Art Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1990s Realist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Drypoint, Etching
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Wood
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Lithograph
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1930s Abstract Figurative Sculptures
Mahogany
1960s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Paint, Plaster, Wood
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Chaim Gross was one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century. Along with other noted sculptors William Zorach and Jose de Creeft, Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, and a majority of his work was carved from wood. Born in Ukraine in 1904, Gross studied at the art academy in Budapest under painter Béla Uitz, followed by art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. He immigrated to the United States with two of his brothers in 1921 and continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design with Elie Nadelman and others, and the Art Students League with sculptor and direct carver Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School at the same time as Peter Blume, Adolph Gottlieb and Moses and Raphael Soyer. Thereafter, Gross began an illustrious career that included important public commissions via his work for the Works Progress Administration and solo and group shows at prestigious galleries and museums such as the Whitney and the Smithsonian. Gross was also recognized with a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle de 1937 in Paris and 1942 with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artists for Victory exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. Gross also had a long career as a professor of printmaking and sculpture at various institutions including the The New School for Social Research, Art Students League and New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with fellow artists Alexander Dobkin and Moses and Raphael Soyer). But he had his longest tenure of 50 years as a professor at his alma mater, the Educational Alliance Art School, where he taught Louise Nevelson in 1934 and helped guide her transition from painter to one of the most important female sculptors of her generation. Gross received multiple honorary doctorates in the 70s and 80s and his work can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. Gross died in 1991.
A Close Look at Contemporary Art
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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