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The 1000++ Artworks created around 1925

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Max Beckmann - The NightThe NightMax Beckmann

Introduction to the Artist and His Masterpiece

Max Beckmann, a renowned German painter, created The Night between 1918 and 1919. This iconic piece is an exemplar of the post-World War I movement known a...

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf, Germany)
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Joan Miro - Joan Miró- Catalan Landscape (The Hunter)Joan Miró- Catalan Landscape (The Hunter)Joan Miro

Catalan Landscape is an oil painting that represents cultural movement during early 20th century. It was created by Joan Miro and it display dreams and hallucinations concept that the world was surpassing during its creation time. It primarily emphasize on Catalonia people and culture prevailing dur...

Museum of Modern Art (New York, United States)
 
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Pablo Picasso - Three MusiciansThree MusiciansPablo Picasso

Introduction

Pablo Picasso's The Three Musicians is a Synthetic Cubist painting that exemplifies the artist's mastery of this style. Created in 1921, the work features three musicians dressed as characters from the popular Italian theater Commedia dell'arte, performing on a box stage (Museum of Modern Art (New York, United States)
 
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Rene Magritte - PleasurePleasureRene Magritte

According to other sources the explanation behind this painting is rather simple: One day Magritte saw his wife eating a chocolate bird, so he decided he would do a painting of a young woman eating a live bird. Evidently he decided not to use an accurate portrait of Georgette because of the graphic ...

Paris (France)
 
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Salvador Dali - Sleep, 1937Sleep, 1937Salvador Dali

Dali’s “Sleep” of 1937 deals with a Freudian theme of the world of dreams that has fascinated the Surrealists who believed that the freedom of the subconscious within sleep could be tapped into and then realized creatively in their art. This painting is an attempt to duplicate the dream world into c...

 
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Joan Miró - The Birth of the WorldThe Birth of the WorldJoan Miró

Joan Miró said that The Birth of the World depicts “a sort of genesis”—the amorphous beginnings of life. To make this work, Miró poured, brushed, and flung paint on an unevenly primed canvas so that the paint soaked in some areas and rested on top in others. Atop this relatively uncontrolled applica...

Museum of Modern Art (New York, United States)
 
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Giorgio De Chirico - The Uncertainty of the PoetThe Uncertainty of the PoetGiorgio De Chirico

Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund (Eugene Cremetti Fund), the Carroll Donner Bequest, the Friends of the Tate Gallery and members of the public 1985. De Chirico’s quiet square evokes the classical arcades and statuary of antiquity (the sculpture is a torso of Aphrodite). In contrast, the p...

Tate Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
 
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Wassily Kandinsky - Yellow, Red, BlueYellow, Red, BlueWassily Kandinsky

About the Artist

Wassily Kandinsky, a Russian painter and art theorist, is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of abstract art. Born in Moscow in 1866, he spent his childhood in Odessa ...

Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France)
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Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) - Girl with CatGirl with CatBalthus (Balthasar Klossowski)
88 x 78 cm, (1937)

Series of paintings “Balthus: Cats and Girls' the origins and permutations of the French artist’s focus on felines and the dark side of childhood. Balthus’s lifelong fascination with adolescence resulted in his most iconic works: girls on the threshold of puberty, hovering between innocence and know...

 
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Street Scene in BerlinStreet Scene in BerlinErnst Ludwig Kirchner
121 x 91 cm, (1914)

About the Artist and Artwork

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, a prominent German expressionist painter, created the captivating artwork Like
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Giorgio De Chirico - Hector and AndromacheHector and AndromacheGiorgio De Chirico

Giorgio De Chirico painted a surrealist and partially cubist oil painting entitled 'Hector and Andromache' between 1917. The artist was inspired by those two art movements while he lived in Italy and Europe at the time. This painting was product of both cubist and surrealist schools of thought over...

Central Square (New York, United States)
 
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Edward Hopper - Chop SueyChop SueyEdward Hopper
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Fernand Leger - Three WomenThree WomenFernand Leger
184 x 252 cm, (1921)

This painting represents a group of three reclining nudes drinking tea or coffee in a chic apartment. While the reclining nude is a common subject in art history, these women's bodies have been simplified into rounded and dislocated forms, their skin not soft but firm, buffed, and polished. The mach...

The Museum of Modern Art (New York City, United States)
 
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Joan Miro - SiestaSiestaJoan Miro

Joan Miró i Ferra (Barcelona, ​​April 20, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 25 December 1983), painter, sculptor and ceramist Spanish, was an exponent of surrealism. His works are characterized by vibrant color and reinterpretation of reality, a reality which changes constantly in search of a balance betwee...

 
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Salvador Dali - Autumn CannibalismAutumn CannibalismSalvador Dali

As with many artists, Dali was to depict war and conflict in several of his major works. Autumn Cannibalism was painted in 1936, the year the civil war began in Spain. The painting is an evocative interpretation of the horror and destruction of war, and also comments on the devoring nature of sexual...

Tate Gallery (London, United Kingdom)
 
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Giorgio De Chirico - The Child-s BrainThe Child's BrainGiorgio De Chirico

The surrealists were greatly influenced by Sigmund Freud’s theories of sexuality. In his writings on the ‘Oedipus complex’, Freud argued that rivalries between sons and fathers for the attention of the mother could lead to feelings of confusion, shame and guilt about sex in adult life. The Freudian ...

Moderna Museum (Stockholm, Sweden)
 
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Joan Miró - Standing NudeStanding NudeJoan Miró

In this oil on canvas, Miro makes use of basic geometric forms. He creates this woman's figure with a rhythm so the viewer has to look up and down the canvas. Miro manages to show the front and side of each body part to allow the viewer to examine how everything was pieced together. Miro's goal was ...

Perls Galleries (New York, United States)
 
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Joan Miro - Dutch Interior IDutch Interior IJoan Miro

Dutch Interior (I) is based on a seventeenth–century painting by Hendrick Martensz Sorgh depicting a lute player in a domestic interior. Miró bought a postcard reproduction of the work at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam a few months prior to beginning his painting. 'I had the postcard pinned up on my e...

Museum of Modern Art (New York, United States)
 
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Joan Miró - Self-PortraitSelf-PortraitJoan Miró

This is a self-portrait of the Catalan artist Joan Miro. Miro worked on this piece from 1937-1960. This self portrait was painted in oil/pencil. This imaginative piece demonstrates that Miro thought of himself as an ever changing and evolving person that had a very humble opinion of himself.

 
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Salvador Dali - The Enigma of Desire, My Mother, 1929The Enigma of Desire, My Mother, 1929Salvador Dali

'The Enigma of Desire' was the first work sold by the Goemans Gallery during Dali's first one-man exhibition there in 1929. Just as he was painting this canvas, Dali found a religious chromolighograph on which he wrote: 'Sometimes I spit with pleasure on my mother's portrait, had a quite psychoanaly...

 
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Joan Miro - Still Life with Old ShoeStill Life with Old ShoeJoan Miro

Still Life with Old Shoe, is an oil painting done by Joan Miró in 1937 and now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The work entered the museum as a gift by James Thrall Soby in 1970. When started the Spanish Civil War Miró was going to his house of Mont-roig del...

Museum of Modern Art (New York, United States)
 
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Edward Hopper - AutomatAutomatEdward Hopper
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August Macke - Landscape with Cows and CamelLandscape with Cows and CamelAugust Macke

The Artist: August Macke

August Macke was a German Expressionist painter, born in 1887. He was one of the leading members of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group of artists who sought to expre...

Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich, Switzerland)
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