David Mccosh
1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Oil
People Also Browsed
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Brocade, Silk
1950s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century English Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Wood
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Panel, Oil
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Paintings
Canvas, Paint
Vintage 1950s North American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Canvas
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Silver Gelatin
1940s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Cardboard, Canvas, Oil
1960s American Modern Black and White Photography
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Oil, Handmade Paper
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Paper
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Canvas, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Canvas, Wood
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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