Autor Andrea Kettenmann, Gilles Néret, Janis Mink, Marcel Paquet, Ulrich Bischoff

Surrealism freed art from the grip of logic. Turning instead to dreams, desire, memory, and the volatile realm of the subconscious, these five modern masters pursued the impulse of Surrealism along radically individual paths, each one arriving at a distinct…

From Parisian banlieues to cities worldwide, JR’s monumental works celebrate humanity. He takes portraiture out of the gallery and into the street, inviting the otherwise ignored to be celebrated. From early graffiti tags to his most recent work on Pont…

Delve into the mystical world of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, whose work from the early 20th century has only recently gained critical attention. An early pioneer of abstraction, af Klint created immersive, colorful paintings filled with geometric…

A key contributor to Nouveau Réalisme in early 1960s Paris, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) worked alongside artists such as Arman, Yves Klein, and Jean Tinguely, scavenging real objects in place of traditional art materials. She connected art to life…

Explore the lyrical seven-decade career of Catalan-born Joan Miro, a towering figure of 20th-century art, whose highly individual style reflected Surrealist, Dadaist, and abstract elements in dazzling colors and unique symbolic narratives. From automated…

Readymade man Changing the course of 20th-century art When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887 1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist s Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery,…

Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) byl francouzský výtvarník a šachista, který většinu života prožil v USA. Byl ovlivněný futurismem a kubismem. Ve Spojených státech přispěl ke zprostředkování znalosti kubismu. V New Yorku založil spolu s Man Rayem dadaistickou…