The 212 Artworks of media Oil On Paper and containing the word josef albers, oil on paper, abstract art, 1950

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who was a pioneering historian of Cubism as well as its preeminent dealer, wrote that in the summer of 1910, Picasso 'pierced the closed form.' In doing so, he made 'the decisive advance which set [C]ubism free from the language previously used by painting.' As seen in this ...

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Norman Lewis is considered the first major African American Abstract Expressionist. Lewis grew up in Harlem and was actively involved in the Black Arts Movement in New York during the mid-20th century; he was a member of the 306 Group as well as the Spiral Collective with fellow African American art...

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Kline arrived at Abstract Expressionism later than others, having continued working in a figural style redolent of American Scene painters into the late 1940s. By that time, he was ready to concentrate on formal concerns, and his friendship with Willem de Kooning helped pave the way. As a means to b...

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During the 1950s, Licini achieved the “metaphysical depiction of silence” (G. Marchiori) seen in his seascapes and night scenes. His poetic imagination was purified through renewed reflection on his abstract geometrical works of the 1930s, to the point that, when reinterpreting this period of his wo...

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