Josef Albers, (born March 19, 1888, Bottrop, Ger.—died March 25, 1976, New Haven, Conn., U.S.), painter, poet, sculptor, teacher, and theoretician of art, important as an innovator of such [...]
Robert Motherwell was an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and [...]
Robert Motherwell’s birthday was Celebrated at Modern Now. Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the [...]
Edouard Manet’s Birthday is celebrated at Modern Now™. Édouard Manet was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal [...]
Paul Cézanne’s birthday was celebrated at Modernnow. Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the [...]
Yves Tanguy’s birthday was celebrated at Modernnow. Yves Tanguy came to painting late (in his early 20s) after a work by Giorgio de Chirico fired his imagination and changed his destiny. He [...]
Limited Edition Wassily Kandinsky Lithograph. On Vélin de rives Woven paper with Deckled edges. Sur les presses de Fernand Mourlot, Paris 1965. Numbered Limited Edition on [...]
Wassily Kandinsky’s birthday is celebrated at Modernnow. Often called the “Father of Abstract Art,” Kandinsky trained as a lawyer in his native Russia, but [...]
Seurat: A Biography First published in English translation in 1943, and in a second edition in 1946 by Wittenborn and Company, this well-documented essay examines the life and work of the [...]
Georges Seurat’s Birthday is celebrated at Modern Now. Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his [...]
Magritte by A.M. Hammacher. 1995. Oversize format. 167 pp., with 138 illustrations, including 48 color plates. This work surveys the enigmatic paintings of Rene Magritte, who [...]