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Abstract Composition
oil on canvas
1927
Le Corbusier
French, born Switzerland
1887–1965

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Oskar Schlemmer
Costumes for the Triadic Ballet
Bauhaus
1927

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December 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Figure
oil and chalk on canvas
1927
Pablo Picasso
Spanish, active France, 1881–1973

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January 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The Circus Horse
oil and tempera on canvas
1927
Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983

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Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramist who helped define the Surrealist movement. His work is known for its childlike expression and symbolic language of simplified, biomorphic forms. Miró's art combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy, and he was influenced by Dadaism and Surrealism. He developed a unique style that challenged traditional painting and bourgeois society.
March 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The Chair's Party
tapestry
1927
Fortunato Depero
1892-1960
Italy

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In 1919, Depero founded the Casa d'Arte Futurista (House of Futurist Art) in Rovereto, which specialised in producing toys, tapestries and furniture in the futurist style. In 1925, he represented the Italian futurists at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. The freedom with which he moved between media over the course of his five-decade career made him Futurism's common denominator. Depero showed Marinetti stacks of paintings, as well as machines built of cardboard. There were also his "abstract" poems written in colored inks on large polychrome sheets dangling from the ceiling. Marinetti read some of these aloud, recognizing his own influence: For several years, he'd been leading a revolt against adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions, promoting what he called "words-in-freedom", a typographic onslaught to directly transcribe modern-world experience. For instance, he set the sounds of battle in verse with declamations such as zang-tooooomb-toomb-toomb and pacpacpicpampampac. By 1916, Depero had taken the concept to a new extreme with "onomalingua," a mechanical dialect (vroiii sioiii oiii) in which he claimed to converse directly with automobiles and trains. However, it was Depero's assemblages in cardboard - with geometric flowers stiff and artificial, such as might bloom in a robotic garden - that changed the course of his career. When he saw them, Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, declared Depero "the new Rousseau". Diaghilev commissioned him to create Futurist scenery and costumes for Stravinsky's ballet, Song of the Nightingale. Decades ahead of their time, Depero's experiments in mechanized movement were never to reach the stage. Stravinsky's ballet was delayed and reworked and ultimately staged years later with a set by Henri Matisse. Fortunato Depero Fortunato Depero is considered one of the most important exponents of the “second Futurism” and played a crucial role in changing the vision of art at the beginning of the 20th century Fortunato Depero was born in 1892 in Fondo, a small village in the Val di Non. After living in Merano for a short time, he moved to Rovereto with his family when Rovereto still belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. As a passionate art lover, he travelled to Rome in 1913 together with his partner Rosetta Amadori, a trip which represented the most important turning point both in his personal and artistic life. While in Rome, he met two well-known exponents of the Futurism movement: Giacomo Balla and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. This special friendship turned his life upside down: he moved to Rome and became Giacomo Balla's pupil. In 1915 they wrote the 'Manifesto di Ricostruzione Futurista dell'Universo', literally 'Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe', a work in which the authors refer to themselves as 'Abstractionist Futurists'. Since its publication, Depero's life was characterised by meetings, travels and important projects, all of which significantly contributed to reshaping the worlds of advertising and design. In 1959 he founded the Casa d'Arte Futurista Depero in the historic centre of Rovereto, nowadays a branch of the MART which can be visited. The museum houses some of the most significant works of the Trentinian artist who died in Rovereto in 1960.
July 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM