"View of Alpine" -- Moya del Pino -- oil on masonite -- 1940.
A US Post Office mural created for Alpine, TX, by Jose Moya del Pino ( 1891- 1969) a Spanish born artist who worked for most of his life in Bay area California.
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Arata Isozaki (磯崎 新, Isozaki Arata; 23 July 1931 – 28 December 2022) was a Japanese architect, urban designer, and architectural theorist from Ōita, Japan. He was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019. He taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 – October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still life work. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography.
Arata Isozaki, New York
gelatin silver print
1992-1993
Irving Penn (1917-2009)
USA
#art #architecture #photography #arataisozaki #Japan #irvingpenn #portrait #c1992 #gelatinsilverprint #artphotography #artofphotography #20thcenturyart
1989 Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011) National Gallery of Art Exhibition Poster - Signed
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#helenfrankenthaler #vintageposter #mountainsandsea #20thcenturyart #colorfieldpainting #midcentury #1950s #1980s #nationalgalleryofart
#art #mcescher #rippledsurface #c1950 #print #ripples #water #reflections #artwork #artist #modernart #20thcenturyart #modernism #opart #surrealistart
Christie’s Sees Rising Demand From Asian Collectors: Bonnie Brennan flagged stronger Asian appetite on Mar 27, 2026; Christie’s (founded 1766) launches 20th/21st Century Spring Auctions 2026 as regional… 👈 Read full analysis #Christies #ArtMarket #AsianCollectors #SpringAuctions #20thCenturyArt
"IMG_9909 Max Beckmann. 1884-1950. Reclining Woman with Pinks. Femme couchée avec des roses. vers 1941. Hannover. Sprengel Museum." by jean louis mazieres is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
#Art #Painting #MaxBeckmann #GermanArt #20thCenturyArt #1940s
Fernand Léger first saw the work of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso at the Paris gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Around 1909 Léger began to paint in a Cubist style, although his compositions in this mode are more colorful and curvilinear than works by Braque and Picasso of the same period, with their angular forms and subdued tones. An artist with far-ranging interests and talents, Léger later became a designer for theater, opera, and ballet, as well as a book illustrator, filmmaker, muralist, ceramist, and teacher. Typically, Léger would develop a major composition by preparing studies in a variety of media. The Railway Crossing is an oil study for The Level Crossing (1919; private collection, Basel, Switzerland). When he took up this subject in 1919, he made a number of drawings and oil sketches, including the present work. Like many of his contemporaries, Léger was fascinated by the machine age. He maintained that machines and industrial objects were as important to his art as figures. References to such elements pervade The Railway Crossing. In the midst of a complex scaffolding of cylinders and beams, an arrow appears on a brightly outlined signboard. A network of solid volumes and flat forms seems to circulate within the shallow space, just as pistons move within a motor. The precise definition of his forms and the brilliance of his palette express Léger’s belief that the machine, along with the age it created, was one of the triumphs of modern civilization.
The Railway Crossing (Sketch)
oil on canvas
1919
Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
France
#fernandleger #art #modernart #therailwaycrossing #oilpainting #c1919 #france #frenchmodernism #modernpainting #20thcenturyart #modernism #cubism #tubism #cubistart #machineage #europe #europeanart
Hans Hofmann was an American-German Abstract Expressionist painter regarded as one of the most influential art teachers of the 20th century. In works such as The Golden Wall (1961), Hofmann disbelieve his belief in the emotional potential of color. “Color is a plastic means of creating intervals—color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions,” he once remarked. Born on March 21, 1880 in Weissenberg, Germany, his family moved to Munich, where as a precocious teenager Hofmann produced scientific inventions, including a radar device. Working for the Bavarian government as young man, he moved to Paris in 1904 to pursue a career in art. In 1915, he opened his own art school in Munich, which operated until 1930, when he was invited to teach in the United States. While in New York, he served as a mentor to Helen Frankenthaler, Ray Eames, and Lee Krasner, as well as becoming close friend of Jackson Pollock. In 1960, Hofmann’s work was featured in the Venice Biennale, and three years later, The Museum of Modern Art mounted the landmark exhibition “Hans Hofmann and His Students.” The artist died on February 17, 1966 in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Tate Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.
Spring
oil on board
1944-45
Hans Hoffman (1880-1966)
American, b. Germany
#art #modernart #abstractart #spring #hanshoffman #artist #educator #nyc #abstractexpressionism #painting #oilpainting #20thcenturyart #modernism #vintagemodern
Max Beckmann -- Quappi in Armchair -- Crayon and chalk on paper -- 1927 -- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
I've only learnt of this picture recently.
I've fallen so madly in love with it that I can't put into words why I love it so much.
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Two women stand close together in a vertical composition, shown against a vivid background with flowering plants. One woman holds a bronze lamp while the other holds a pink lotus blossom. Their bodies are arranged in a paired, balanced way that emphasizes relationship and shared action rather than individual portrait identity. The women with the lotus appears to be slightly kneeling and has her left arm extended and reaching through the nook of the other woman's right arm. They wear traditional South Asian clothing and ornaments, with attention to contour, color, and decorative detail . The scene reads as both intimate and ceremonial. The women are not in motion across a landscape, but gathered within a shallow space that centers their gestures and the objects in their hands. The overall effect is calm, devotional, and domestic at once for an image of women’s presence, care, and preparation. The lamp and lotus together strongly suggest a ritual or worship context, and the pairing of the women invites a reading of intergenerational teaching, companionship, or shared devotion. Rather than presenting a dramatic public event, the painting possibly honors a quieter moment of preparation or one often associated with women’s labor, spirituality, and cultural continuity. The floral setting deepens that sense of auspiciousness and beauty, echoing the lotus as a symbol often linked with purity, offering, and sacred attention. Because the artist is not identified, the work also stands as a reminder of how many images of women’s lives in South Asia survive with limited attribution, even when their visual storytelling remains vivid. Here, the emotional center is not individual fame but a shared act of two women holding light and bloom, possibly poised at the threshold of worship.
"Two women" by Unknown artist (Indian) - Pigment on paper / 20th century - Salar Jung Museum (Hyderabad, Telangana) #WomenInArt #SalarJungMuseum #SalarJung #IndianArt #art #artwork #artText #BlueskyArt #20thCenturyArt #ArtOfTheDay #UnknownArtist #bskyart #PortraitOfWomen #SouthAsianArt
The False Mirror presents an enormous lashless eye with a luminous cloud-swept blue sky filling the iris and an opaque, dead-black disc for a pupil. The allusive title, provided by the Belgian Surrealist writer Paul Nougé, seems to insinuate limits to the authority of optical vision: a mirror provides a mechanical reflection, but the eye is selective and subjective. Magritte's single eye functions on multiple enigmatic levels: the viewer both looks through it, as through a window, and is looked at by it, thus seeing and being seen simultaneously. The Surrealist photographer Man Ray, who owned the work from 1933 to 1936, recognized this compelling duality when he memorably described The False Mirror as a painting that "sees as much as it itself is seen."
Le Faux Miroir
(The False Mirror)
oil on canvas
1928-29
René Magritte (1898-1967)
Belgium
#surrealism #surrealistart #lefauxmiroir #thefalsemirror #painting #art #modernart #modernism #20thcenturyart #renemagritte #belgium #eye #clouds #moma #nyc
Fernand Léger (1881–1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker who pioneered "Tubism," a, distinctive form of Cubism characterized by tubular, mechanical forms and bold, primary colors. Influenced by modern industrial technology, his art celebrated the dynamism of urban life. His work evolved from early Cézanne-inspired paintings to a "mechanical" period, later becoming more figurative and populist. In his mature style, Fernand Léger worked a great deal with human forms, figures with flowing contours and with strong colours over the whole field. These dancers fly forward from the left and a draped piece of cloth on the right and the winding stalk of a rose the dancer on the left is holding in her hand contrast with the full surfaces of the dancers' skin. The keys? The keys are the starting point of the architectonic design on the right-hand side of the painting, contrasting in turn with the two triangular shapes. And finally, in contrast to the square and pointed shapes is a rounded, gently flowing "cloud frame" which completes the composition at the top and the bottom.
Les danseuses aux clés
(Dancers with Keys)
oil on canvas
1930
Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
France
#fernandleger #france #art #painting #modernart #cubism #tubism #lesdanseusesauxcles #dancerswithkeys #oilpainting #c1930 #modernism #geometry #figurative #20thcenturyart #frenchart #frenchmodernism
I'm probably in the company of many here in being familiar with this pictorial indictment of the capitalist Germany of the mid twenties.
I can't make up my mind whether the unforgettable imagery is or was politically effective as a powerful agent and sustainer of […]
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Christian Schad -- Two Girls -- 1928 -- Oil on Canvas -- Private Collection
Another picture from the 2006 exhibition catalogue "Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s" that struck me was Christian Schad's 1928 "Two Girls" […]
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The Jeweller Karl Krall -- Otto Dix -- 1923 -- Kunst und Museumsverien im Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal.
According to the 2006 exhibition catalogue "Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s, Krall was not only, as a chamber music amateur, musical, but was […]
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Andy and Dali go to the party after the screening of the movie "Shampoo" in NYC February 11, 1975.
#andywarhol #salvadordali #after #party #moviepremiere #shampoo #c1975 #photograph #paparazzi #celebrity #artists #art #20thcenturyart #polaroidcamera #daliscane
Stringed Figure
bronze, wire
1938
Henry Moore
#sculpture #modernsculpture #henrymoore #stringedfigure #c1938 #art #modernart #20thcenturyart #modernism #vintagemodern #moderndesign #design
Reader II
Limestone
1919
Jacques Lipchitz
(1891-1973, France)
#sculpture #cubism #cubistsculpture #jacqueslipchitz #limestone #c1919 #Paris #france #frenchmodernism #modernism #moderndesign #modernsculpture #20thcenturyart #art
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)
oil on canvas
1926
René Magritte
#magritte #renemagritte #art #surrealism #surrealistart #dada #lesliaisonsdangereuses #dangerousliaisons #c1926 #oilpainting #painting #modernart #20thcenturyart #infiniteregression #thoughtprovoking #natureofreality
Nine paned stained glass window with mottos, books and lights.
Many thanks to Katherine, Abigail and Naomi from #Accrington Library for their hospitality at my library visit yesterday. One of the highlights of the visit was this gorgeous #StainedGlass #20thCenturyArt window in the library.
Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life is in its final week at the Courtauld Gallery, don't miss out on this delectable exhibition!
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#waynethiebaud #courtauldgallery #20thcenturyart #whatsonlondon #americanstilllife
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/133102-z-vii
#MoholyNagy #LászlóMoholyNagy #ZVII #Bauhaus #Modernism #Art #20thCenturyArt #Painting
'Big Bird' sculpture
painted metal
1937
Alexander Calder
#stabile #sculpture #bigbird #alexandercalder #oneofakind #circa1937 #modernism #modernistsculpture #biomorphism #biomorphicsculpture #americanart #20thcenturyart #metalsmith
Elena Andreevna Kiseleva (Russian, 1878-1974) -- Portrait de femme -- Oil on canvas -- 88.3 x 106cm -- Inscribed in Cyrillic 'Belgrad' (upper right)
#Art #Painting #RussianArt #Portrait #20thCenturyArt #Yugoslavia
I have been doing more research into early 20th century art styles, and the one I just finished seems to be more 1950s Atomic art, which I love. I think the next one is more Bauhaus, so will be curious to see what you think. For example: #crossstitch #atomicart #1950sdesign #Bauhaus #20thcenturyart
A stylised landscape drawing of trees and other vegetation backed by a sickle moon in a blue sky. The main focus of interest is a hollow tree inside which a man is sheltering. He is holding a crook and is therefore presumably a shepherd.
A hollow tree by John Craxton for #ThickTrunkTuesday.
#JohnCraxton #landscape #20thCenturyArt #artsky
'The Two Philosophers'
oil on copper
1936
Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983
#joanmiro #art #modernart #painting #modernism #thetwophilosophers #dated1936 #artwork #20thcenturyart #spain #spanishmodernism #spanishmodernist
Colourful geometric abstract picture, a study for a wall mural titled Jazz to be installed in Tottenham Court Road tube station, done in what looks like ink and gouache on board, signed Eduardo Paolozzi 1982 (possibly "Munich May 1982")
Eduardo Paolozzi
Jazz Panel Study for Tottenham Court Road
1982
#abstractart #geometricart #20thcenturyart
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Trip to #LACMA today. I passed the Petersen Automotive #Museum on my way. #art #FineArt #TwentiethCenturyArt #20thCenturyArt #DayOff #LosAngeles ☀️
"Fishing Village" by Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010)
#Painting #Art #WuGuanzhong #ChineseArt #20thCentury Art #FishingVillage
