Rothfuss, an important voice in Latin American modernism, rejects recognizable forms by breaking the frame
Location: MoMA
In Fishes, Peláez turned to the domestic sphere to explore her modern Cuban identity soon after her return to Havana from Paris in 1934.
Amelia Peláez del Casal, Fishes
This furry tea service was a touchstone for Surrealism, but the artist was a victim of her own success.
Meret Oppenheim, Object (Fur-covered cup, saucer, and ...
A house, a boat, an arrow, a clock—Torres-García attempts to humanize modern art with universal symbols
Joaquín Torres-García, Composition
Rauschenberg's Signs is a montage of iconic symbols of 1960s culture
Robert Rauschenberg, Signs
This photograph of Sihuana is a sensitive portrait of an Indigenous Peruvian man in traditional dress.
Martín Chambi, Juan de la Cruz Sihuana, ...
Arndt’s choice to pose among so many textures, clothes, and props suggests she was aware of the power of photography to interrogate gender roles.
Gertrud Arndt, Self-Portrait with Veil
Severini and Boccioni use brilliant colors, abstraction, fragmentation and repetition of forms to create a vibrant whirling energy.
Gino Severini, Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal ...
The Futurists called for the destruction of museums, libraries, and cultural monuments and glorified modern technology and the speed of automobiles, trains, and airplanes.
Umberto Boccioni and the Futurist City
Artist Henri Rousseau painted The Dream in 1910, and its imagery of a woman lounging on a sofa in the jungle was as surreal then as it is today.
Why Is This Woman in the Jungle? ...
Three Musicians looks like a collage made from cut out pieces of colored paper — but it is an oil painting.
Pablo Picasso, The Three Musicians
When we consider what a Cubist painting represents we engage in an intellectual or conceptual activity rather than a merely perceptual or visual one.
Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso: Two Cubist ...
The American flag is a potent symbol that has different meanings for different viewers.
Icon and irony: Jasper Johns, Flag
Cheap fabric with a garish print becomes an eerie specter of surveillance thanks to some creative chemistry.
Sigmar Polke, Watchtower series
Malevich believed that artists, and art, could pave the way to a better future. But would they?
A new world after the Russian Revolution: ...
Kosuth wrote that “being an artist now means to question the nature of art.” Take a seat to find out how he did it.
Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs
Moholy-Nagy claimed to create these objects without touching them or even seeing them—how does that work?
László Moholy-Nagy, Telephone Pictures
Rejecting traditional subject matter, Balla paints an object that is forthrightly modern and technological.
Giacomo Balla, Street Light
De Kooning painted image after image on this canvas, continually wiping it down and starting again.
Willem de Kooning, Woman, I
The artist mined the art of non-western cultures to locate “primal creativity”—whatever that means.
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