Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

reference by using himself, his wife, and his son as the models for the three family members. The stilted angularity of the figu ...

ERNST BARLACHA work more spiritual in its expression is the War Monument (FIG. 35-45), which the German sculptor Ernst Barlach(1 ...

girl with her hoop in the foreground, the empty van, and the omi- nous shadow of a man emerging from behind the building. The se ...

closed building “violate” the bulky frame’s space. Additional disloca- tion occurs in the traditional museum identification labe ...

SALVADOR DALÍ The Surrealists’ exploration of the human psyche and dreams reached new heights in the works of Spain’s Salvador D ...

ment by ordering “un peu plus de fourrure” (a little more fur), and the sculpture had its genesis.Object takes on an anthropomor ...

PAUL KLEE Perhaps the most inventive artist using fantasy im- ages to represent the nonvisible world was the Swiss-German painte ...

Having formulated his artistic approach, Malevich welcomed the Russian Revolution, which broke out in 1917, as a political act t ...

occupies. Two transparent planes extend through its diameter, cross- ing at right angles at the center of the implied cylindrica ...

predominance of mechanization in society by immersing themselves in a search for the organic and natural. CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI Ro ...

element in her work from that point forward, and that represents her major contribution to the history of sculpture: the use of ...

VERA MUKHINA Not all sculptors of this period pursued abstraction, however.The Worker and the Collective Farm Worker (FIG. 35-60 ...

engineering skills soon helped him to fashion a series of balanced structures hanging from rods, wires, and colored, organically ...

curtailed both their purchases and exhibition schedules. Many artists sought financial support from the federal government, whic ...

and time suspended, as if the artist recorded the major details of a poignant personal memory. From the darkened streets outside ...

effects of Cubist space and his memories of the patterns made by the colored scatter rugs brightening the floors of his childhoo ...

THOMAS HART BENTONAnother major Regionalist artist was Thomas Hart Benton(1889–1975). Whereas Wood focused his attention on Iowa ...

Among the projects these politically motivated artists undertook were vast mural cycles placed in public buildings to dramatize ...

conflicts between the indigenous people and the Spanish colonizers. Rivera included por- traits of important figures in Mexican ...

proposed site in the center of Moscow, it would have functioned as a propaganda and news center for the Soviet people. Within a ...