The 1000++ Artworks created around 1925 and ...

Introduction to the Artist and the Painting

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In the 1930s, the art historian Meyer Schapiro, at odds with Alfred Barr and the apologia for abstraction made by the recently founded MoMA, wrote about the importance of the theme and of studying the choices made by artists painting Cubist still lifes, as a way to trace the thinking and private lif...

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Braque used a wallpaper simulating limewashed oak to represent the table and another pattern to imitate the paneling typical of dining rooms. The latter is laid on top of the other pasted fragments but, paradoxically, represents the wall behind the table. To integrate it into his composition, Braque...

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We look down onto a pile with a newspaper, theater program, pipe, a black and white checkerboard, and other objects painted as abstracted, geometric forms on a tabletop in this nearly square still life painting. Near the center, a rectangular form like a newspaper is painted with the headline “LE JO...

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About the Artist and His Masterpiece

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For early American modern artists like Stuart Davis, energetic cities and widely varied terrain offered intriguing new ground for artistic experimentation. During the first decades of the 20th century, Davis lead the shift from realism to abstraction in American art. Davis began his career creating ...

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Introduction to Fernand Léger and Cubism

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Cylindrical, C-shaped, and triangular forms are painted with flat areas of vivid pink, purple, navy, royal, and light blue, turquoise, white, black, and gray in this abstract, horizontal painting. A rectangular form, jutting into the picture from the lower left corner, suggests a table, on which the...

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Léger was one of the most prominent and prolific artists working in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century. He was first associated with the avant-garde in 1909, when he exhibited his work at the Salon d'Automne in the company of artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Constantin Brancusi. His ...

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Introduction to Joan Miró and Surrealism

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Introduction to Marc Chagall and Naive Art

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