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Like many of Nevelson’s best-known works, End of Day XXXV is made of wood painted a matte black, a color she characterized as “visually weightless.” Many of her sculptures were built from found…
Contributor:
Louise Nevelson
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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Glid’s memorial for the Jews of Salonika, Greece who were murdered in the Holocaust is modeled on Menorah in Flames, his 1990 monument for the murdered Jews of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Both depict a tree…
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Nandor Glid
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Thessaloniki, Greece
Date:
1997
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Cabbalistic Sphere, a sculpture made from polished aluminum, is one of Kaish’s many works inspired by ancient Jewish texts. Some of her works with spiritual and metaphysical themes are abstract…
Contributor:
Luise Kaish
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1975
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Motherwell’s most famous series of artworks was his Elegies to the Spanish Republic, which he intended as “a funeral song” for the losing side, the Republicans, in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)…
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Robert Motherwell
Places:
Greenwich, United States of America
Date:
1980
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In 2000, Cohen Levy had an exhibition, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, of a series of paintings of ponds. Each of the paintings has a pattern: a single image, such as leaves, eyes, or fish, which is…
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Maya Cohen Levy
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1998
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Around the time that Paul Strand took this photograph, he wrote an essay on photography that called for developing an original American art “without the outside influence of Paris art schools.” This…
Contributor:
Paul Strand
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1916