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Late 20th Century American Modern Still-life Prints
Watercolor, Monotype
People Also Browsed
Late 20th Century Pitchers
Porcelain
Early 20th Century English Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Wood
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
Mid-20th Century Asian Islamic Textiles
Cotton
Vintage 1980s American Modern Prints
Paper
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Canvas, Wood
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Porcelain
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Ceramic
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Oil
Early 20th Century Moroccan Other Paintings
Canvas
Antique Late 19th Century French Paintings
Canvas
20th Century American Neoclassical Paintings
Late 20th Century American French Provincial Prints
Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century American Outsider Art Paintings
Canvas
Vintage 1960s North American Paintings
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Recent Sales
Late 20th Century Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Monotype
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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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