In the center of the European pre-war art world, artists experimented with a variety of styles and media.
c. 1904 - 1939
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Marc Chagall, Half-Past Three (The Poet)
Chagall renders conventional, but strikingly personal, elements of his Parisian studio in a truly unconventional way: as a set of intersecting and overlapping lines and prismatic planes
Amedeo Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt
“Wearing” would be much too strong a word for this woman’s relationship to her shirt.
Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss
Brancusi retains the materiality of the stone, honoring it rather than denying it as past artists had done.
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