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Constructivism: The Intersection of Art and Industry in the Avant-Garde Movement

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Emerging from the 1917 revolution in the newly formed Soviet Union, Constructivism wasn’t only the most influential modern art movement in 20th century Russia, but its visualization of a new aesthetic language brought with it a sea change in how we view art that redefined the role of art in society.

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Capturing Contemplation: Contemporary Sculptor Wang Shaojun

MIR Appraisal

Wang Shaojun is a Chinese sculptural artist based in Beijing, China. Born in 1958, he is now a professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China’s most prestigious and well-known art university, and an artist. Within the global art world, the discourse regarding Chinese contemporary art is still somewhat problematic.

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Marcel Breuer: From Bauhaus Visionary to Furniture Design Icon

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Saint John’s Abbey Church, built in Collegeville, Minnesota, in 1961. Image via Flickr, courtesy of ya3hs3.

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5 Hot Lots Coming to Auction in October

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Artist Richard Howard Hunt (1935-2023) was recognized as one of the foremost African-American abstract sculptors of the 20th century. Throughout his career, Hunt used modern methods and industrial materials to sculpt organic forms. Over his career, the celebrated Chicago artist won multiple prizes.

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A Forgotten Woman Artist: Lilian de Glehn Thibaut

Mark Hill

The Parisian cul de sac called Cité Falguière (below) is renowned as the group of artists’ studios in Paris inhabited across the years by a roster of then penniless, now world famous, artists. So her art was seen by and hung in very good company! Gauguin, Modigliani, Brancusi, Soutine, the list goes on. He had five children.

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Assemblage and Collage: From Found Objects to Fine Art

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Upending the fine-art world, Collage and Assemblage subverted the very fabric of art, as artists like Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp elevated everyday items into high art, broke boundaries, and challenged traditional notions of what constitutes art, leaving an indelible print on the art world in their wake.

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A Few Great Book Finds for Your Holiday!

Art Advisor's Blog

Gardner and the artists whose work she collected, with back-stabbing and intrigue in the modern art world. This rollicking tale gives some great, imagined historical relationships, some real backroom information on how art forgers work and throws rocks through the glass houses of modern-day art experts and museum elites.