modernism
This tag marks work carrying the modernist urge to break from traditional, realistic representation and ask what art could be once it stopped simply recording the world as it looked. It opened the door to abstraction, bold color, and simplified form starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Use this tag to find work that still carries some of that same restless, convention questioning spirit, whatever decade it was actually made in, and however far it pushes past traditional technique.
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Max Weber
Max Weber was a Russian born American modernist painter born in 1881 who became one of the first American artists to embrace Cubism after being influenced by Picasso and Braque. His vibrant, abstracted scenes of urban life, shaped by his experience as a Jewish immigrant, made him a key figure in introducing Cubism to American…
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Stuart Davis
Stuart Davis was an American modernist painter born in Philadelphia in 1892 who studied under Robert Henri before the 1913 Armory Show pushed his work toward abstraction. He built a style that merged the bold look of advertising with European avant-garde ideas, creating art he saw as distinctly modern and American, and he died in…
