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Art today is the only thing constructed, an end in itself, about which no more need be said, such richness vitality meaning wisdom: to understand to see.
To describe a flower—poetry…
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Tristan Tzara
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1917
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Chaim Soutine’s self-portrait is both an homage to art history and a critique of it. There was a long tradition of artists painting themselves facing an easel, holding a palette and paint brushes. But…
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Chaim Soutine
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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ca. 1918
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Digital Image © Tate, London 2018.
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1903
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Sailor with Guitar is one of Jacques Lipchitz’s early cubist sculptures, an experiment in translating painterly cubist concepts into three dimensions. The figure of the sailor was inspired by sailors…
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Jacques Lipchitz
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1914
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By the 1920s, the Montparnasse artist Chana Orloff was a popular portrait sculptor, inspired by cubism and classical and “primitive” art. Her flowing, smooth-surfaced sculptures in wood or bronze…
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Chana Orloff
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1924
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Chair with Red Matter was painted at a time when Henryk Berlewi was producing figurative art: portraits and still lives inspired by the work of seventeenth-century French artists. By 1957, he had…
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Henryk Berlewi
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Nice, France
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1950
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The title of this painting, La Kahena, alludes to a seventh-century military Berber queen who opposed the Arab conquest of North Africa. Legend has it that she was Jewish and also a sorceress. The…
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Jean-Michel Atlan
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Paris, France
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1958
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Between 1909 and 1915, Amedeo Modigliani created about twenty-five stone sculptures, using techniques he learned from the modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi. The sculptures were inspired by…
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1911–1912
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A retrospective exhibit these last few weeks at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris—perhaps too generously big an undertaking—has allowed a wider public to appreciate the originality and importance of…
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Édouard Roditi
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1963
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In the 1940s and 1950s, Endre Bálint’s paintings began to feature mythological and fantastical symbols and figures, in a style sometimes reminiscent of Hungarian folk art and archaic art. In…
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Endre Bálint
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Paris, France
Date:
1959