#twentieth century art

Nocturne in Black and Gold

thunderstruck9:

Timur Novikov (Russian, 1958-2002), Night, 1989. Oil on textile, 84 x 95.5 cm.

dappledwithshadow:

Salvador Dalí 

Space Venus, 1984

Bronze in green and gold patina is divided into two parts to reveal the golden egg.

inland-delta:

Jessie Arms Botke, Black Peacocks with Japanese Persimmons, c 1940

beetleinabox:

Max Beckmann, The Night, 1919 (Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf).

J. M. Bernstein writes:

The cruelty of abstraction, its cutting into the flesh of sensuousness in order to enact such sensuousness, engages us on the ground of our bodily mortality, which the reigning universals eclipse as a condition for meaning. The disturbance, distress, suffering of the material surface - just that - that these canvases perform (on and to us) are a way of calling back and voicing sensuous reality in its mortal coils, of recalling or inventing an experience of depth of transcendence that hangs on nothing more than our bodily habitation of a material world in which all things pass away.

lqdhoney:

“Fantasia” 1943

Hans Hoffman

contemporaryarabart:

Laila Shawa, Hands of Fatima, 1989

Oil on canvas

pocarovna:

Painter Ludovit Fulla and his depictions of Slovak traditional clothes

Paul Delvaux - City Worried 

collageoftheweek:

Max Ernst - Untitled (Unpublished collage for ‘Une Semaine de Bonté’)
1934

Egon Schiele - Death and the Maiden 

Dorothea Tanning - Birthday