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Late in his career, Guston turned from abstract expressionism to figurative art, creating iconoclastic, allegorical paintings. Moon is a combination of still-life, self-portrait, and landscape. In the…
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New York, 1979
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Lost Flowers
In the 1970s, Weisel, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, made a series of abstract paintings inspired by her father’s tattoo from Auschwitz. The central rectangle in this painting resembles a…
Subway
Over the course of five years, from 1980 to 1985, Davidson rode the subway for six hundred miles, with the aim of documenting the diversity and uniqueness of the passengers. At a time when the subway…
Self-Portrait in Blue Bathroom, London, 1980
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