'Nude Descending A Staircase' is perhaps the most famous painting by which 20th century artist?
"for the ""Nude"". It doesn't mean that I copied these photographs. The Futurists were also interested in somewhat the same idea, though I was never a Futurist. And of course the motion picture with its cinematic techniques was developing then too. The whole idea of movement, of speed, was in the air. Duchamp later recalled of the relation between motion and his nude: My aim was a static representation of movement, a static composition of indications of various positions taken by a form in movement—with no attempt to give cinema effects through painting. The reduction of a head in movement"
"Nu couché Nu couché (also known in English as Red Nude or ""Reclining Nude"") is a 1917 oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. It is one of his most widely reproduced and exhibited paintings. The painting realized $170,405,000 at a Christie's New York sale on 9 November 2015, a record for a Modigliani painting and placing it high among the most expensive paintings ever sold. The purchaser was the Chinese businessman Liu Yiqian.. Liu is believed to have paid for the painting using his American Express card. The painting is one of a famous series of"
"New York City. ""Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2"" was reproduced by Guillaume Apollinaire in his 1913 book, ""Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques"". It is now in the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work, an oil painting on canvas with dimensions of 147 cm × 89.2 cm (57.9 in × 35.1 in) in portrait, seemingly depicts a figure demonstrating an abstract movement in its ochres and browns. The discernible ""body parts"" of the figure are composed of nested, conical and cylindrical abstract elements, assembled together in such a way as to suggest rhythm"
"languages. Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase (originally in French Femme nue montant l'escalier) is a drawing done with pencil and charcoal on card made by Joan Miró in 1937. It is part of the permanent collection of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Miró created ""Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase"" during the Spanish Civil War. He was living in Paris when he started to attend life drawing classes at the school of the Grande Chaumiere. Miró returned to constructing the human figure to represent the drama that was then taking place in Catalonia. This feeling"
"the artistic legacy for the public benefit. In 2015, the Lachaise Foundation entered an agreement with Findlay Galleries, and since then the gallery has been the exclusive representative of the Lachaise Estate. Gaston Lachaise Gaston Lachaise (March 19, 1882 – October 18, 1935) was an American sculptor of French birth, active in the early 20th century. A native of Paris, he was most noted for his female nudes such as ""Standing Woman"". Gaston Lachaise was taught the refinement of European sculpture while living in France. He met a young American woman, Isabel Nagel, and the pair moved to America, where"
"level of emotional and sexual honesty and use of figural distortion in place of conventional ideals of beauty. He also painted tributes to Van Gogh's ""Sunflowers"" as well as landscapes and still lifes. In 1910, Schiele began experimenting with nudes and within a year a definitive style featuring emaciated, sickly-coloured figures, often with strong sexual overtones. Schiele also began painting and drawing children. Egon Schiele’s Kneeling Nude with Raised Hands (1910) is considered among the most significant nude art pieces made during the 20th century. Schiele’s radical and developed approach towards the naked human form challenged both scholars and progressives"
"for highest price for a painting; surpassed only by Leonardo da Vinci's ""Salvator Mundi"" in November 2017. Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( or ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of"
"Gaston Lachaise Gaston Lachaise (March 19, 1882 – October 18, 1935) was an American sculptor of French birth, active in the early 20th century. A native of Paris, he was most noted for his female nudes such as ""Standing Woman"". Gaston Lachaise was taught the refinement of European sculpture while living in France. He met a young American woman, Isabel Nagel, and the pair moved to America, where his craft reached maturity and he was influenced and inspired by American ways. Lachaise helped redefine the female nude in a new and powerful manner. His drawings also reflected his new style"
"Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase (originally in French Femme nue montant l'escalier) is a drawing done with pencil and charcoal on card made by Joan Miró in 1937. It is part of the permanent collection of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Miró created ""Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase"" during the Spanish Civil War. He was living in Paris when he started to attend life drawing classes at the school of the Grande Chaumiere. Miró returned to constructing the human figure to represent the drama that was then taking place in Catalonia. This feeling can"
"case, a case of unconsciousness and disorientation"". In another article he referred to Duchamps ""Nude"" as ""monstrous"", because the artist renounced form and a sensual appearance of reality, contradicting the efforts of other Cubists. The following year ""Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2"" was exhibited at the Armory Show where it became the subject of endless scandal. Art historian Jaime Brihuega writes of the Dalmau Cubist show: ""No doubt that the exhibition produced a strong commotion in the public, who welcomed it with a lot of suspicion. Cubism subsequently became one of the most influential art movements of the 20th"
"of approaches to depicting everyday bottles and kitchen implements. Throughout the 20th century many painters practiced Realism and used expressive imagery; practicing landscape and figurative painting with contemporary subjects and solid technique, and unique expressivity like Milton Avery, John D. Graham, Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Balthus, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Philip Pearlstein, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Grace Hartigan, Robert De Niro, Sr., Elaine de Kooning and others. Along with Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, and other 20th-century masters. The figurative work of Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, Edward Hopper, Lucian Freud"
"head of the Museum Art School, which opened in 1909 and is now the Pacific Northwest College of Art. In late 1913, the museum hosted one of its most important early exhibitions. The exhibition featured artwork that had been on display earlier that year at the famous 1913 New York Armory Show, which introduced American audiences to modern art. The exhibition included works by Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Manet, Renoir, and the controversial ""Nude Descending a Staircase"" by Marcel Duchamp. The museum continued to grow during the years following World War I. In the 1920s, the museum hosted two"
"nude as subject and started a long line of famous paintings. Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), a French painter in the classical style whose work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color, served as an alternative to the more narrative Baroque style of the 17th century. He was a major inspiration for such classically oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Paul Cézanne. The rise of the Neoclassical art of Jacques-Louis David ultimately engendered the realistic reactions of Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet leading to the multi-faceted figurative art of the 20th century. In November, 2018, scientists"
"Study of a Nude Study of a Nude, or Suzanne sewing is an 1880 painting made by Paul Gauguin in Paris. It is currently in the collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. The painting depicts a young woman who is arranging a garment in undisguised nakedness. The painting depicts a young, nude woman who is arranging a garment. The scene is set in a bedroom with the woman sitting on an unmade bed against a mauve wall that is decorated with a mandolin and a tapestry. The body of the model is a three-quarter perspective with the head"
"Glyptotek. Study of a Nude Study of a Nude, or Suzanne sewing is an 1880 painting made by Paul Gauguin in Paris. It is currently in the collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. The painting depicts a young woman who is arranging a garment in undisguised nakedness. The painting depicts a young, nude woman who is arranging a garment. The scene is set in a bedroom with the woman sitting on an unmade bed against a mauve wall that is decorated with a mandolin and a tapestry. The body of the model is a three-quarter perspective with the"
"some sort to Duchamp."" His art was transformed from ""a minor, aberrant phenomenon in the history of modern art to the most dynamic force in contemporary art."" In December 2004, Duchamp's ""Fountain"" was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century by 500 selected British art world professionals. Second place was afforded to Picasso's ""Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"" (1907) and third to Andy Warhol's ""Marilyn Diptych"" (1962). ""The Independent"" noted in a February 2008 article that with this single work, Duchamp invented conceptual art and ""severed forever the traditional link between the artist's labour and the merit of the work""."
"abstract geometrist"". Piet Mondrian Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1906 Piet Mondrian (; , later ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics."
"Piet Mondrian Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, after 1906 Piet Mondrian (; , later ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed"
"Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His works are in private collections and museums in the United States. At the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, a room is devoted to Dewing's paintings. Thomas Dewing Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York. The Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian"
"Nude (Renoir, Belgrade, 1910) Nude (1910, , / ""Kupačica"") is a painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is oil on canvas, and was painted in 1910. The painting is currently housed in the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade. The painting was given to the Serbian people by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. The painting was purchased in Paris in 1935 by Milan Kašanin, contemporary director of the National Museum. It was paid for by joint contributions from the Museum, the Ministry of Culture and private donations. It was stolen in 1996 by an amateur Roma thief. During the theft"
"at his studio in Prabhadevi. Akbar Padamsee Akbar Padamsee (born 12 April 1928, Bombay) is a contemporary Indian artist and painter, considered one of the pioneers in Modern Indian painting along with Raza, Souza and M.F. Hussain. Over the years he has also worked with various mediums from oil painting, plastic emulsion, water colour, sculpture, printmaking, to computer graphics, and photography, as worked a film maker, sculptor, photographer, engraver, and lithographer. Today his paintings are among the most valued by modern Indian artists. His painting ""Reclining Nude"" was sold for US$1,426,500 at Sotheby's in New York on 25 March 2011."
"than one hundred pictures, the most famous and emblematic of which is probably ""The Lonely Cedar"" () . His art connects with post-impressionism and expressionism, but he was an autodidact and cannot be classified into one style. He identified as a ""sunway""-painter, a term which he created. Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (; July 5, 1853 – June 20, 1919) was a Hungarian painter who was part of the avant-garde movement of the early twentieth century. Working mostly in Budapest, he was one of the first Hungarian painters to become known in Europe. On 15 December 2006 the Kieselbach"
"Edgar Degas Edgar Degas ( or ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist. He was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his rendition of dancers, racecourse subjects and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and"
"it was badly damaged and was recovered in poor condition, requiring a year of restoration. After the Renoir was stolen, the entire foreign art collection was moved to the museum warehouse to protect the collection until a better security system could be installed. Nude (Renoir, Belgrade, 1910) Nude (1910, , / ""Kupačica"") is a painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is oil on canvas, and was painted in 1910. The painting is currently housed in the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade. The painting was given to the Serbian people by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. The painting was purchased"
"Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. His career spanned fifty years and was wildly successful: his painting ""Daybreak"" is the most popular art print of the 20th century. Maxfield Parrish was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to painter and etcher Stephen Parrish and Elizabeth Bancroft. His given name was Frederick Parrish, but he later adopted Maxfield, his paternal grandmother's maiden name, as his middle, then finally as his professional"
"Andrew Wyeth and others served as a kind of alternative to abstract expressionism. One of the most well-known images in 20th-century American art is Wyeth's painting, ""Christina's World"", currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It depicts a woman lying on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at and crawling towards a gray house on the horizon; a barn and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house. This tempera work, done in a realist style, is nearly always on display at the Museum of Modern Art in"
"the background is of the lower body of a naked person, but contrary to rumor, he is not holding his penis with his left hand; a piece of red fabric is draped over his genitals. A sprightly British drama, ""Two Nudes Bathing"", speculates upon the origins of the anonymous painting. An anachronistic visual reference to the painting appears in ""The Tudors"", Season 1, Episode 6 ""True Love"". Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses soeurs (""Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters"") is a painting by an unknown artist circa 1594. It now hangs"
"Nude Sitting on a Divan Nude Sitting on a Divan (The Beautiful Roman Woman) is an oil on canvas painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani depicting a partially draped woman seated with crossed legs against a warm red background. The work was one of a series of nudes painted by Modigliani in 1917 that created a sensation when exhibited in Paris that year. On November 2, 2010, the painting sold at a New York auction for $68.9 million, a record price for an artwork by Modigliani. The several dozen nudes Modigliani painted between 1916 and 1919 constitute many of his"
"of his ""Nude Descending a Staircase"". Other artists who created works for the Dollhouse include Alexander Archipenko, George Bellows, Gaston Lachaise, and Marguerite Zorach. Even in death the Stettheimers attracted artists; Pop artist Andy Warhol wrote about the Stettheimers in his 1980 book ""Popism: the Warhol '60s"". ""Florine Stettheimer was a wealthy primitive painter, a friend of Marcel Duchamp’s, who’d had a one-woman show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946, and her sister Carrie had made some fabulous dollhouses [sic] that I loved at the Museum of the City of New York."" After her mother's death in 1935,"
"Daybreak (painting) Daybreak is a painting by American artist Maxfield Parrish made in 1922. ""Daybreak"" is regarded as the most popular art print of the 20th century, based on number of prints made: one for every four American homes. According to the National Museum of American Illustration, it has outsold Andy Warhol's ""Campbell's Soup Cans"" and Da Vinci's ""Last Supper"". It is still in print. Parrish referred to ""Daybreak"" as his ""great painting"", the epitome of his work. Measuring , the painting employs a formal layout similar to a stage set, with two feminine figures. Painted using preparatory photographs, the"
"of the most well-known images in 20th-century American art is Wyeth's tempera painting, ""Christina's World"", in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It depicts a woman lying on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at and crawling towards a gray house on the horizon; a barn and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house. After World War II the term School of Paris often referred to Tachisme, the European equivalent of American Abstract expressionism and those artists are also related to Cobra. Important proponents being Jean Dubuffet, Pierre"
"Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic or megalithic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing"
"Leg of mutton nude Double Nude Portrait: The Artist and his Second Wife 1937 (also known as the Leg of mutton nude portrait) is an oil on canvas painting by British artist Stanley Spencer. It depicts Spencer and his soon-to-be second wife, Patricia Preece, beside a raw leg of lamb. The painting is sexually charged: Spencer's second wife was a lesbian in a long-term relationship when they married, and their marriage was never consummated. The painting is held by the Tate Gallery, which describes it as ""probably now Spencer's most famous picture"". The painting is one of seven portraits that"