Selection of Famous Paintings from MoMA - From Cézanne to Pollock

Author: Shanghai Ci Shu
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: From the 1880s to the early decades of the 20th century, painting became the best laboratory for avant-garde experiments. The tremendous changes in social, cultural, and economic conditions led painters to boldly adopt new media and themes, inventing numerous new techniques. Cézanne to Pollock: Selections from the Painting Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York explores these groundbreaking innovations through the museum's outstanding collection of paper-based works. Some of the most celebrated modern painters challenged conventional notions of artistic creation through their work: from Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, and Miró's defiance of traditional concepts of space, shape, and structure, to Ernst, Hoock, and Schwitters' collages and (synthetic works) that incorporated non-art materials and chance-derived ephemeral materials; from Malevich, Rodchenko, and Shisiki's abstract abandonment of shape, to Arp and Masson's acceptance of chance in their accidental methods. Cézanne to Pollock: Selections from the Painting Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York highlights these and other movements, vividly depicting the artists' creative processes and the formation of modernism.