#20th century art

Chu Teh-Chun (朱德群) (1920–2014, China/France)

Abstract expressionist paintings3

Chu Teh-Chun was a Chinese-Frenchabstract painter. Chu and his schoolmates Wu GuanzhongandZao Wou-ki were dubbed the ‘Three Musketeers’ of modernist Chinese artists trained in China and France, and were pivotal in creating a modern style of painting that synthesized both European and Chinese art traditions.

Chu’s style in particular combines brush strokes inspired by Chinese calligraphy and strong elements of European expressionism and tachism movements.

Gaetano Previati (1852–1920, Italy)

Drawings

Gaetano Previati was an ItalianSymbolist painter whose work fell into the Divisionist style of Neo-Impressionism.

Lionel Walden (1861-1933, United States)

Landscapes and seascapes2

Walden was an Americanlandscape painter active in Hawaii, Cornwall, Wales and France. Particularly known for his seascapes, and depictions of Hawaii, which constitute the first noteworthy attempts by a professional artist to portray the region in painting.

Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941, France)

Street scenes2

Galien-Laloue was a Frenchlandscape artist of the Belle Époque. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter, and his work has left us some of the most vivid depictions of everyday Paris, populated by shoppers, horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars and omnibuses.

Zhao Shao'ang (Shaoang, Shao-Ang, 趙少昂) (1905-98, China)

Bird-and-flower paintings2

Zhao Shao'ang was a Chinese artist and exemplar of the landscape, and bird-and-flower painting traditions, as well as a noted painter of cicada. His style is that of the Lingnan School, which formed the basis for the modernisation of 20th century Chinese art.

Carl Holsøe (1863–1935, Denmark)

Interiors2

Holsøe was a Danish artist who primarily painted interior scenes often with a solitary female figure present. His style will remind some of his friend and more famous compatriot Vilhelm Hammershøi.

America the Beautiful (1968)

by David Hammons

Marina Montini, 1969, by Emiliano di Cavalcanti

The Love Letter, Edmund Blair Leighton, 1919

Edward Hopper, Boy and Moon (1906-1907)

Stepwise transformations and entanglement.

Escher understood transformation and entanglement before the physicists did.

-The Brown Veil (Mrs Harrington Mann) by William Nicholson, 1905 (detail)

- Moonlight night by Józef Chełmoński, 1906

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Happy birthday to Man Ray, who produced works in a variety of artistic styles, including the production of photograms (which he called rayograms)—photographs created without the use of a camera by placing objects on light-sensitive material and then exposing the material to light.

“Man Ray,” 1934, by Carl Van Vechten

Always extraordinary. 

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