The Shock of the NewAn illustrated history of modern art describes the origins of modern painting, sculpture, and architecture, shows how world events affected the art, and explains why the movement is near its end. |
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... motifs multiply .... These " motifs " were not merely rocks and grasses ; they were the relationships between grass ... motif ( plate 2 ) . No previous painter had taken his viewers through this process so frankly . In Titian or Rubens ...
... motifs multiply .... These " motifs " were not merely rocks and grasses ; they were the relationships between grass ... motif ( plate 2 ) . No previous painter had taken his viewers through this process so frankly . In Titian or Rubens ...
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... motif ; Braque was not yet interested in the abstractions of the studio , and he felt a need to be on the spot . Specifically , he needed Cézanne's own motifs , and in the summer of 1908 he went off to paint in L'Estaque , in the South ...
... motif ; Braque was not yet interested in the abstractions of the studio , and he felt a need to be on the spot . Specifically , he needed Cézanne's own motifs , and in the summer of 1908 he went off to paint in L'Estaque , in the South ...
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... motif over and over again , in series . He probably got this idea from Japanese prints , which were widely circulated among the artists in Paris and furnished them with a stream of motifs . He may have got it from Hokusai's Hundred ...
... motif over and over again , in series . He probably got this idea from Japanese prints , which were widely circulated among the artists in Paris and furnished them with a stream of motifs . He may have got it from Hokusai's Hundred ...
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