Modern Art, Abstract Art and Contemporary Art

 In 1936 the Museum of Modern Art presented an exhibition entitled Cubism and Abstract Art. In the preface to the catalogue, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. states that the exhibition is restricted to European examples of Cubism and abstraction, since a year previously the Whitney Museum had shown a large collection of abstract art in America.

With the production of abstract painting and sculpture it seemed appropriate to review the movement in both a historical and contemporary sense. The modern art on this site covers a period of approximately thirty-seven years, from about the time of the famous Armory Show of 1913 to 1950.

The origins of 20th century abstract art are in Europe, but certain Americans reacted almost immediately to the first stirrings of the movement; consequently the period covered here coincides fairly well with the history of abstract art abroad.

"Painting is nothing but an image of incorporeal things, despite the fact that it exhibits bodies, for it represents only the arrangements, proportions, and forms of things, and is more intent on the idea of beauty than on any other." - Nicolas Poussin

Elina Mernmies

Broadway 
by Rolf Van Gelder
Cage.nl

 

Party Animal 
by Elina Merenmies
Arken.dk

 

Disapearer 
by Eva Rothschild
ModernArtInc.com

 

Hans Hofmann

The Colour That Was There 
by Gillian Ayres
Tate.org.uk

 

Provincetown
by Hans Hofmann
TheModern.org

 

Woman with the Hat
by Henry Matisse
Collections.SFMoMA.org

 

James Ensor

Tribulations of Saint Anthony
by James Ensor
MoMA.org

 

Home
by Jason York
ContempoGallery.com

 

L'oro Dell'Azzurro
by Joan Miro
BestArt.com

 

Nicholas de Stael

Blue Eyes
by Willem de Kooning
Art-Meets-Art.net

 

Sicile
by Nicholas de Stael
ArtRepublic.com

 

Untitled
by Mychajlo Andreenko
Uima-Art.org

 

Paul Cooklin

 

"Retro 4" v2
by Paul Cooklin
Paul Cooklin.com

 

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