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The art of the 20th Century: A century of innovation and change
The 20th century was a revolutionary period in art history. In the span of a few short years, Modernism exploded into being, disrupting centuries of classical figurative tradition to create something entirely new.
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Faith and Modernism: Depictions of the Virgin and Child in the 20th century
From classical devotion to contemporary reinterpretations, the Virgin and Child remained a powerful subject, reflecting both continuity and transformation in modern religious and secular art.
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A source of controversy related to Frida Kahlo
Hidden behind the portraits of Frida Kahlo is the remarkable story of the artist’s life. It is precisely this combination that attracts the spectator. Frida’s work is a testimony of her life; it is not often that one can understand an artist simply by looking within the frame of their paintings. Frida Kahlo is without any doubt Mexico’s gift to art history.
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The Surreal Universe of Salvador Dalí
As a one of the foremost painters of the 20th century, Dalí, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed contemporary art toward its present incarnation.
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Salvador Dalí: Mastering the Surreal Realm of Imagination
Salvador Dalí is best known for his unique and striking style with an extraordinary repertoire reaching out across film, painting, photography, and sculpture. Whilst his name may be most commonly associated with Surrealism, Dalí consummately displayed mastery over such broad genres as classical, modernist, and Cubist styles.
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The Blue Period and Beyond: Picasso and His Timeless Imprint on the World of Art
In this book one can find many artworks created by Picasso between 1881 and 1914. Apart from a selection of Picasso’s first paintings, it also presents several drawings, sculptures and photographs.
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Salvador Dalí – The never-ending enigma
Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a prime example of his freshness, humour and exploration of the subconscious mind. Throughout his life, Dalí was a genius at self-promotion, creating and maintaining his reputation as a mythical figure.
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Spotlight on Marc Chagall
The text below is the excerpt from the book Marc Chagall, written by Victoria Charles, published by Parkstone International. Through one of those curious reversals of fate, one more exile has regained his native land. Since the exhibition of his work at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in 1987 and which gave rise to an extraordinary popular fervour, Marc Chagall has experienced a second birth. Here we have a painter, perhaps the most unusual painter of the twentieth century, who at last, attained the object of his inner quest: the love of his Russia. Thus, the hope expressed in the last lines of My Life, the autobiographical narrative which the…
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Bauhaus
The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 to explore new aesthetic perspectives and creative teaching programmes for the education of architects, designers and artists for a post-war democratic society.
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KLEE: A Contrapunctal (e) Motion
Exhibition: Rosso, Klee, Sonnier and more Date: Nov 9 2018 to Mar 7 2019 Venue: Hilti Art Foundation, Vaduz, Liechtenstein Exhibition:Paul Klee: The Berggruen Collection from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Date: Nov 16, 2018 – Mar 17, 2019 Venue: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada In a collection of his writings titled The Thinking Eye, Paul Klee once asked his readers to take a “little journey” with him to “the land of Better Understanding.” He was speaking of the technical aspects of art, but the same invitation can be made at the outset of this brief profile of the artist. The Swiss-born Paul Klee (1879-1940) was one of the most inventive, witty,…
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