The 330 Artworks created around 1950 and containing the word fernand leger, naive art, primitivism, designs and containing the word sketches, temples, 1950

In February 1950, Xu Beihong published the article “An Informal Discussion on Landscape Painting” in New Construction. In addition to pointing out the history, accomplishments, and other existential issues of Chinese landscape painting, he noted: “Art needs realism. If there is a genius among us, I ...

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This painting depicts Jiming Temple in Nanjing, China. Built in the Western Jin Dynasty, the temple is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in the city. It has been known as /

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White Center is part of Rothko's signature multiform style: several blocks of layered, complementary colors on a large canvas. A luminosity results from the repeated layering of thin washes of paint, which allows some underpainting to show through the upper coats. In each work of this period, Rothko...

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Kline was married to a ballet dancer, Elizabeth Parsons, who, like the famous Russian dancer Nijinsky, suffered from schizophrenia. Kline made several portraits of Nijinsky during his early years, when he worked as a commercial illustrator. This work, however, does not depict the dancer. It is one o...

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Max Beckmann, a prominent German painter known for his Expressionist style, created the captivating painting Columbine in 1950. This masterpiece is now part of the extensive collection at the renowned Saint Louis Art Museum.

About Max Beckmann's Columbine

Columbine is a symbolic ...

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In Cape Cod Morning Edward Hopper captures the post-war mood of anxiety in this stark, ambiguous painting. John Sloan and Andrew Wyeth are among other realist painters in the collection. Some American modernists found new ways of depicting the spirit of their age. The dynamic rhythms of modern life ...

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In the late 1950s Paul Delvaux produced a number of night scenes in which trains are observed by a little girl seen from behind. These compositions contain nothing overtly surrealistic, yet the clarity of moonlit detail is hallucinatory in effect. Trains had always been a subject of special interest...

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study after velazquez's portrait of pope innocent x is a 1953 painting by Francis Bacon. The work shows a distorted version of the Portrait of Innocent X painted by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez in 1650. The work is one of a series of variants of the Velázquez painting which Bacon executed thro...

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Many of Nolan’s paintings in the Central Australia series were produced through the use of a combination of sources including; rough line drawings, pencil notes, his own photography and images produced by professional aerial photographers. The works in the series have a filmic sensibility, appearing...

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The Madonna of Port Lligat is the name of three paintings by Salvador Dalí. The first was created in 1949, measuring 49 x 37.5 centimetres (19.3 x 14.8 in), and is housed in the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dali submitted it to Pope Pius XII for approval, which was granted. Dalí c...

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