modern art
art that was produced in the late 1860s through the 1970s and that rejected traditionally accepted forms and emphasized individual experimentation and sensibility.
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Just as Chuck Close’s enormous works of art loomed over their onlookers, his legacy looms large over the modern art world.
How a TIME Art Critic Covered Chuck Close Across the Decades | Andrew R. Chow | August 20, 2021 | TimeSince arriving in 2008, Kosinski has transformed the 100-year-old Dupont Circle museum, which bills itself as the nation’s first museum of modern art.
Longtime Phillips Collection director Dorothy Kosinski to leave at end of 2022 | Peggy McGlone | July 22, 2021 | Washington PostThe researchers tried a few other methods of measuring illusory pattern perception — such as having participants try to detect patterns in abstract modern art paintings — and found similar results.
As an impresario of modern art, he persuaded Arnold & Porter to start an arts collection and decorated the office walls with paintings by artists of the Washington Color School.
James F. Fitzpatrick, lawyer and lobbyist at Arnold & Porter, dies at 88 | Louie Estrada | February 17, 2021 | Washington PostEach short chapter takes the form of a different genre—stoner comedy, self-help bestseller, modern art.
The popular narrative is that Hitler and his Nazi regime thought all modern art was "degenerate."
Top Nazis And Their Complicated Relationship With Artists | William O’Connor | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1980, a retrospective of the artist at the Museum of modern art in New York captivated Hockney.
He was pivotal in the creation and survival of the Museum of modern art.
He began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.
The Stacks: Robin Williams, More Than A Shtick Figure | Joe Morgenstern | August 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAcross Doel, traditional facades are painted with bright, modern art.
Graffiti Saved This Belgian Ghost Town from Government Bulldozers | Nina Strochlic | June 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST"He is the great unconscious humorist of modern art, also a great etcher," said Isabel, dryly.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonBut his pictures had no elaborate grouping, which is one of the excellences of modern art.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordNor is it a hard matter to assign probable causes of the perfection in this modern art.
An Essay upon Projects | Daniel DefoeMasaccio Sir Joshua considers to have been "one of the great fathers of modern art."
The Dutchmen from about 1620 to 1670 were the most active innovators and path-breakers of modern art along all these lines.
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