Gallery 6: Modern Art

 

Characteristics of Modern Art

  • Modern art is characterized by a bewildering array of techniques and subjects
  • Artists experimented with new materials and new perspectives.
  • Artists increasingly turned to abstraction believing that figurative depiction was too mired in the baggage of the past.

How does this series of portraits created during the Modern era reflect changes in the artist’s approach to figures and abstraction? How does portraiture change over time in terms of the psychological depiction of the subject?

 Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Vincent van Gogh. Self Portrait September 1889 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. oil on canvas
Vincent van Gogh.Self Portrait, September 1889. Oil on Canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

 

 

 

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Pablo Picasso. Gertrude Stein, 1906 Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New York,
Pablo Picasso. Gertrude Stein,1906 Oil on canvas.The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York,

 

 Picasso, Pablo. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907. Oil on Canvas. Museum of Modern Art New York, New York
Picasso, Pablo.
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Oil on Canvas.
Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York

 

Pablo Picasso. Girl Before a Mirror 1932. Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY oil on canvas
Pablo Picasso. Girl Before a Mirror, 1932. Oil on Canvas, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY

 

 

 Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Henri Matisse,  La Musique View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1939 Creation End Date: 1939 Creation Date: 1939 Object Type: Paintings Classification Term: Oil Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas Dimensions: 45 1/4 x 45 1/4 AMICA Contributor: Albright-Knox Art Gallery Owner Location: Buffalo, New York
Henri Matisse. La Musique, 1939. Oil on canvas. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

 

 

 Willem De Kooning (1904-1997)

De Kooning, Willem Woman I 1950-1952 Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art NY NY
Willem De Kooning . Woman I, 1950-1952 Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, NY NY

 

 

 Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)

Roy Lichtenstein. Drowning Girl,1963 Museum of Modern Art N Y, N Y Oil and magna on canvas
Roy Lichtenstein. Drowning Girl,1963. Museum of Modern ArtN Y, N Y. Oil and magna on canvas

 

 

 Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait, 1966 Museum of Modern Art NY, NY silkscreen ink and synthetic polymer paint on nine canvases
Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait, 1966. Silkscreen ink and synthetic polymer paint on nine canvases Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY

 

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