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From Picasso to Pollock highlights the history of the aesthetic vanguard from early Modernism through Abstract Expressionism.

Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go, recently on view at Almine Rech in New York, the exhibition depicts a history of words used in artwork, from early modernism through to contemporary.

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The schools» transition from stately, which was characteristic of the early 20th century, to sterile has several explanations: the spread of modernism generally, the devaluation of public architecture in particular (city halls have been victims too), the physical growth of schools through both district consolidation and population increase, and fiscal pressures in the public sector.

Debating Modernism I explores the emergence and subsequent development of an Arab art aesthetic through drawings and paintings from the early twentieth century.

Imperfect Chronology — Debating Modernism I explores the emergence and subsequent development of an Arab art aesthetic through drawings and paintings from the early twentieth century to 1967, an important historical period in the region.

Scully employs a reductive vocabulary of thick horizontal and vertical bands of color, which perform an interplay of mass, light and shadow, through which he reconciles the ordered character of early European Modernism, with its ideals of harmony and spirituality, and late American Modernism, with its use of less harmonious, expressionistic compositions.

Rooted in the early to mid-20th-century European avant - garde, the collection provides a unique lens through which to examine the foundational movements of modernism, including Italian Futurism, Russian Constructivism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada and Lettrisme, among others.

From the earliest antiques through icons of mid-century modernism, furniture has always had its fervent fans.

We have also added to our collection of American modernism through two strong works; from the Alex Katz Foundation, we received an early landscape painting by Marsden Hartley, Late Fall, Maine (1908) and from Audrey M. and Carlton D. Leaf» 52, we were gifted a watercolor by Andrew Wyeth, the haunting Door to the Sea (1953).

In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling through clear formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and collaged elements of earlier works, and often focusing on a limited color palette — including the red, green, and black of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.

By the 1930s, European and American Modernism was making slow but steady inroads into Texas through a few well traveled and educated early converts to radical art forms of abstraction.

Abstraction is often thought of as the the movement that changed modernism through visually and physically breaking down the constructs of classical and early modernist art.

Channeling early 20th century modernism, Hueller's «Picassoesque» dark works charm the viewer through mystery.

Modernism — encompassing art made in the late 19th through mid-20th centuries, includes early Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne as well as the abstract expressionist works of artists such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.

This subject - based abstraction indicates that her most obvious source — abstract expressionism — has been tweaked through references to earlier modernism.

Smaller in scale than those paintings of her 2014 debut exhibition, the new work matches in surreal ebullience their predecessors, praised by Roberta Smith as «big, boisterous semi-abstract canvases (that) exude an impressive confidence... like close - ups of billboards or a tour through some outsize undergrowth in which nature has merged with several brands of abstraction, from early American Modernism to Color Field painting... (Silva) is already is tackling a lot with an astuteness and aplomb that make her a painter to watch.»

«America's Cool Modernism» takes the viewer on an impressive narrative journey through the works of famous painters and photographers of the 1920s and «30s including early paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe; photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Edward Weston; and ends with the melancholy of Edward Hopper's cityscapes.

Roy Dowell's is a mythopoesis nurtured through a modernism of archaic forms without parody, informed through tribal arts, the zone inhabited by early 20th - century artists and mid-century artists alike.

Looking at the history of early American modernism through the lens of the Shein Collection offers a timely opportunity to consider the contributions made by American artists during the advent of modernism a century ago.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: «Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe» (through Jan. 2) Alfred Stieglitz was a mountainous presence in the landscape of early 20th - century American Modernism, as a photographer, critic and art dealer.

His artistic evolution took him through early modernism, through social realism, and finally to fully realized abstraction.