Francis Picabia — Iris (1929) | Modernist Abstract Print

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Francis Picabia — Iris (1929) | Modernist Abstract PrintFrancis Picabia (18791953) was a French Cuban avant garde artist who moved through Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism with restless iconoclastic energy. A central figure of the international Dada movement, he published the Dadaist journal 391 and produced works of savage wit and philosophical provocation. His later works the Transparencies series, the floral abstractions, the erotic nudes chart a career of constant, deliberate, gleeful self

Josef Albers (1888–1976) was a Bauhaus master and the father of systematic colour theory in modern art — the painter whose Homage to the Square series (1950–1976)

His Bauhaus-period works — the Small Worlds portfolio

and Vietnam copied these texts as acts of devotion

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His Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji — including The Great Wave off Kanagawa — are the defining works of Edo period art and among the most reproduced images in human history

The glaze is optically clear

Jīngjù) is China's supreme theatrical tradition — a form combining song

Working in the period before multicolour printing

one of the earliest examples of avant-garde sensibility applied to commercial design

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) was the most celebrated bijinga artist of the Edo period — the printmaker who elevated the portrait of beautiful women to a form of psychological portraiture

Joichi Hoshi (1913–1979) was a Japanese Sōsaku-hanga printmaker known for his strikingly simple

His graphic facility and eye for pattern make his decorative drawings among the most distinctive works of late-18th-century Dutch draughtsmanship

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