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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... Watercolour , collage , pen , pencil 16 × 11 ins : Galerie Nierendorf , Berlin . 44 George Grosz Republican Automatons 1920 Watercolour on paper 23 × 18 ins Collection , The Museum of Modern Art , New York , Advisory Committee Fund ...
... Watercolour , collage , pen , pencil 16 × 11 ins : Galerie Nierendorf , Berlin . 44 George Grosz Republican Automatons 1920 Watercolour on paper 23 × 18 ins Collection , The Museum of Modern Art , New York , Advisory Committee Fund ...
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... watercolours are the most joyous part of his life's work ( plate 80 ) . They do not have ( and could not in fact ... Watercolour let Cézanne record aspects of the landscape that the weightier medium could not so promptly fix : the ...
... watercolours are the most joyous part of his life's work ( plate 80 ) . They do not have ( and could not in fact ... Watercolour let Cézanne record aspects of the landscape that the weightier medium could not so promptly fix : the ...
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... watercolours ; and the raw canvas soaked up the watery pigment just as rag paper absorbs a watercolour wash . Landscape , imagined as Arcadia , remained the governing image in Frankenthaler's work , and her titles often invoked the idea ...
... watercolours ; and the raw canvas soaked up the watery pigment just as rag paper absorbs a watercolour wash . Landscape , imagined as Arcadia , remained the governing image in Frankenthaler's work , and her titles often invoked the idea ...
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