The 499 Artworks of media Mixed Media and containing the word francis picabia, mixed media, dada, 1925

Stimulated by travel and encounters with the School of Paris and American Abstract Expressionism, Szyszlo pioneered lyrical abstraction in Peru in the mid-1950s. Eschewing the entrenched social realism of the contemporary Indigenist school, he found a guiding precedent in ancient Andean forms—woven ...

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Born in Nagoya in 1936, Shusaku Arakawa was a leading contemporary artist in Japan. While participating in avant-garde movement Neo Dada Organizers in Tokyo in 1960, Arakawa released three-dimensional works in the shape of coffin. He emigrated to New York by himself in 1961 and met his life time par...

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The watering can, visible at left, was a standard fixture in ballet rehearsal rooms; water was sprinkled on the floor to keep dust from rising when ballerinas danced. Degas also used the watering can as a visual pun: its shape is mimicked by that of the dancer at right. Shown at the 1877 Impressioni...

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