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1920s American Modern Portrait Prints
Etching, Drypoint
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Drypoint, Engraving
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography
Photographic Paper, Pigment
1850s Victorian Figurative Prints
Woodcut, Engraving
Early 1900s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Other Medium, Archival Paper, Handmade Paper, Pen, Felt Pen, Permanent M...
20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1890s Portrait Prints
Aquatint, Drypoint
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Drypoint, Etching
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Prints
Drypoint, Aquatint, Etching, Intaglio
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Drypoint, Etching
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Drypoint, Color
Early 1900s French School Figurative Prints
Etching
Mid-19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Drypoint, Etching
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Etching
19th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Drypoint, Watercolor
1940s American Modern Portrait Prints
Etching
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1930s Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Pen
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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