Oskar Schlemmer Was Born 138 Years Ago Today. He Turned the Nude Into Geometry and Changed Modern Art.
Oskar Schlemmer, born in Stuttgart on September 4, 1888, spent his working life asking one question: what happens when the
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Henri Rousseau Died 116 Years Ago Today. He Painted the Nude as a Dream.
Henri Rousseau painted jungles he never saw, in a country he never left, from a mind that had never been
Ingres Was Born 246 Years Ago Today. He Made the Nude an Ideal, Then Gave It Desire.
On August 29, 1780, a boy was born in Montauban, in the south of France, who would spend eighty-six years
Emil Nolde Was Born 159 Years Ago Today. His Nudes Made the Body Raw, Primal, and Electric.
On August 7, 1867, a boy named Emil Hansen was born in the village of Nolde, in what was then
Marcel Duchamp Was Born 139 Years Ago Today. How Nude Descending a Staircase Changed What a Body Could Be in Art.
On July 28, 1887 — 139 years ago today — Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was born in Blainville-Crevon, Normandy. He would grow
George Grosz Was Born 133 Years Ago Today. He Drew Berlin’s Naked Truth — and the Body Never Lied.
George Grosz was born on July 26, 1893, in Berlin. He would become one of the most devastating draftsmen of
Edward Hopper Was Born 144 Years Ago Today. He Reinvented the Nude as a Portrait of American Loneliness.
On July 22, 1882, in the shipbuilding town of Nyack, New York, Edward Hopper was born. He would become the
Amedeo Modigliani Was Born 142 Years Ago Today. His Nudes Got Him Arrested — and Made Him Immortal.
The Nudes That Got Modigliani Arrested \n\n On December 3, 1917, the Berthe Weill Gallery in Paris opened a solo
James McNeill Whistler Was Born 192 Years Ago Today. He Taught the Nude Body to Stand Alone.
\n James McNeill Whistler was born 192 years ago today \u2014 July 11, 1834 \u2014 in Lowell, Massachusetts. He would
