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From powerful and symbolic 20th - century war paintings to the first ever exhibition dedicated to queer British art, here's the best art to see this month as chosen by the RA Magazine team.

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Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso, whose abstract techniques have done more to influence 20th century painting than that of any other artist.

The castle which gave its name to the city after the Second World War is 17th century (built on the site of a 14th century one) and is surrounded by classic wood - beamed, white - painted German houses.

Traveled to Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (February 12 — May 11, 2008) Be — Bomb: The Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz in the 1950s, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain (October 5, 2007 — January 7, 2008) Contemporary and Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (September 29, 2007 — January 6, 2008) Twentieth - Century American Women Artists from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Gallery at the Park Avenue Bank, New York, New York (September 17 — November 2) Americans in Paris: Abstract Painting in the Fifties, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (July 16 — September 29) French Kiss, JGM Galerie, Paris, France (May 25 — July 13) When Art Worlds Collide: The 60s, Woodward Gallery, New York (May 17 — July 14) An Architect Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt and a Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (April 20 — July 29) Gestes, Signes, Traces, Espaces: Figures de la peinture moderne française dans les collections publiques normandes, Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France (February 17 — April 30).

Considered one of the most important painters of the twentieth century, Still was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years following World War II.

American Art Students learn to look at visual imagery through an exploration of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts representing the colonial period, the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars, westward expansion, the early twentieth century, and the contemporary moment.

As an incessant voice in contemporary German painting for more than half a century, he has witnessed the development of his country since World War II and in this light his resume of the state of affairs of his native country seems uplifting: «Actually we have the same or similar problems as all other countries nowadays... we're looking ahead.»

As a revisionist study of post-World War II art, the exhibition offers a rejoinder to the modernist orthodoxies of the mid-to-late 20th century by contending that paint's material properties make it well suited to convey metaphors of human vulnerability.

(New York — August 12, 2014) Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Irving Norman: War & Peace — Monumental Paintings, 1969 - 1986, an exhibition of seven large - scale paintings and one drawing created by one of the twentieth century's most talented and outspoken critics of war and other forms of injustiWar & Peace — Monumental Paintings, 1969 - 1986, an exhibition of seven large - scale paintings and one drawing created by one of the twentieth century's most talented and outspoken critics of war and other forms of iPaintings, 1969 - 1986, an exhibition of seven large - scale paintings and one drawing created by one of the twentieth century's most talented and outspoken critics of war and other forms of ipaintings and one drawing created by one of the twentieth century's most talented and outspoken critics of war and other forms of injustiwar and other forms of injustice.

Two paintings in the exhibition by Frans Post and a book by Willem Piso predate the nineteenth century, but most of the works in the exhibition were made during the 1830s,»40s, and»50s, the years following the Latin American wars of independence.

An expert on 20th - century American art, he is the author of The Nude in American Painting, 1950 — 1980, Pop Art, and H. C. Westermann at War: Art and Manhood in Cold War America, as well as essays in American Art, Art Bulletin, and Art Journal.

These paintings represent the changing mindset of American art and culture from the late - nineteenth century to World War II.

The dark tone typical for Bacon's painting resonates better with the war itself than the post-war period, although most of his significant works that were made later in the 20th century remained equally destructive and emotionally disturbing.

Considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century, Still was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years following World War II.

Exploring 20th century art and its influences world - wide, Entwistle (New York, main) will show tribal sculptures side by side with post war Japanese paintings of the Gutai and Informel movements; while Axel Vervoordt (Antwerp, main) will curate a rare solo presentation of Masatoshi Masanobu, a significant artist from Gutai's second wave.

Unlike the Abstract Expressionist artists of the mid-20th century, who communicated the uncertainty and fear of a post World War II nuclear world, Pan's abstract painting evokes an idealistic, optimistic, global view.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Ellsworth Kelly (31 / 51923 -27 / 12/15), one of America's great 20th Century Abstract artists, who in the years after World War II shaped a distinctive style of American painting by combining the solid shapes and brilliant colors of European Abstraction with forms distilled from everyday life.

Paul Nash, one of Britain's most important 20th century artists, shows us the terrible impact of war through his powerful and symbolic paintings.

As Robert Rosenblum states in his 2002 essay for the Marlborough New York exhibition of paintings by Francis Bacon «within this world of widely varied nudity, Francis Bacon might be seen as pioneer and reigning monarch, shifting rapidly, as he could from the immediate stimulus of the always imperfect, often ugly flesh he scrutinized in real - life models and photographs all the way to the fantastic, theatrical constructions that could evoke everything from Aeschylus's Oresteia to the nightmares of the twentieth century's two world wars».

She gained recognition after World War II, when she received a grant from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and showed at both Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century Gallery and the Museum of Nonobjective Painting (now the Guggenheim Museum).

The painting also refers to the wars that shaped the twentieth century, as the images borrowed from F - 111 (1964 — 65) and Pablo Picasso's Guernica (1937) suggest.

Gaudier - Brzeska was already dead, other members had been scattered by the demands of war, and the public was completely uninterested in modernist 20th century paintings, no matter what they represented.

Referencing the ways that landscapes have been politicized through historical events — from the violent expansion of the American West, colonialism, war, and abolition, through to more recent race riots and social protests — Mehretu began by combining photographs from these events with nineteenth - century landscape paintings.

Ellsworth Kelly, one of America's great 20th - century abstract artists, who in the years after World War II shaped a distinctive style of American painting by combining the solid shapes and brilliant colors of European abstraction with forms distilled from everyday life, died on Sunday at his home in Spencertown, N.Y..

Highlighted by Tanner's iconic painting The Annunciation, the exhibition features a wide range of items such as pre-Civil War - era decorative pottery, early 20th - century paintings and photography, sculpture and portraits.

Considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Still was among the first generation of abstract expressionist artists who developed a new and powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II.

+ Amid public discontent, an auction house in Vienna plans to display a 17th century Old Master painting stolen by the Nazis in World War II.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.

Highlights include the country's largest collection of 19th and early 20th century paintings and drawings by American realist William Glackens; the most extensive holding in the U.S. of works by post-World War II, avant - garde Cobra artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam; and a celebrated Latin American art collection.

The least strident sub-variant of the wider Art Informel style - itself one of the most important European modern art movements of the post-World War II period - Lyrical Abstraction (or «Abstraction Lyrique») was a French style of 20th century painting in the manner of American Abstract Expressionism.

FAMOUS AMERICAN PAINTERS For biographies of some of the best American artists from the 18th and 19th centuries, see: Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) Seascapes, Civil War painting.

Among its highlights is the country's largest collection of 19th and early 20th century paintings and drawings by the American realist William Glackens, the most extensive holding in the U.S. of works by post-World War II, avant - garde CoBrA artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, and extensive holdings of works by leading Latin American artists.

The art historian Sue Scott has this to say of the Grey Area series: «In these somber, simplified tonal paintings, many of which were based on the facades of beautiful nineteenth - century buildings destroyed in World War II, one gets the sense of buildings in the process of disappearing, much like the history of the city she was depicting.»

Western painting in the past two centuries exhibits an on - and - off relationship with color; from the wild oranges and yellows of the Fauvists to the abandonment of color in World War - era Expressionism.

A group of conceptual art objects is at the core of the exhibition — most of them playing on the title of Handel's famous composition, including works by Christian Marclay and Yoko Ono — juxtaposed with more traditional seascape paintings and prints, ranging from 19th - century American Luminist A.T. Bricher to the post — World War II photorealist Richard Estes.