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Modern art

1 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, ________

2 More recent artistic production is often called ________ or Postmodern art.

3 ________, New York

4 Der Blaue Reiter - ________, Franz Marc

5 Russian avant-garde - ________, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov

6 ________ - Stuart Davis, Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe

7 Postwar European figurative painting - Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, ________

8 ________ - André Derain, Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck

9 Expressionism - Egon Schiele, ________, Chaim Soutine

10 Photorealism - Audrey Flack, ________, Duane Hanson, Richard Estes, Malcolm Morley

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouse?
  • after witnessing first hand the carnage of the First World War, English artist David Bomberg lost his faith in modernism and Russian Ballet was his last work in a vorticist idiom?
  • the painter Cuno Amiet, a pioneer of modern art in Switzerland, created more than a thousand self-portraits?
  • Andrew Michael Dasburg's three "daringly experimental" Cubist pieces at the 1913 Armory Show introduced many Americans to modern art?
  • British architect Sir Colin Wilson, known for designing the new British Library near St Pancras station, donated his collection of modern art to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester?
  • Swedish modernist painter Torsten Andersson sometimes destroyed hundreds of sketches leading up to his finished works?
  • Tom Wolfe's 1975 book The Painted Word, which criticized modern and conceptual art, was so reviled by the art establishment that multiple reviewers compared the book to watching pornography?
  • Paul Cézanne's The Bathers (pictured) is often considered his greatest work and one of the masterpieces of modern art?
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