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In Valentine (1966), artist Evelyne Axell (1935 – 1972) combines an idealized feminine silhouette with a spacesuit helmet. This artwork was made during the 1960s Space Race, when the United States and the Soviet Union competed for dominance in space exploration. The title refers to a Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who was the first woman in space.
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Tol-Pedn, Penwith, near artist Jonn Tunnard’s home on the Lizard Peninsula, is the most southerly point of the British mainland. Its concrete landmarks appear to have inspired this abstract landscape. Tunnard is said to have turned three somersaults at the opening of his exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim’s London Gallery in 1939. He was among a number of British artists attracted to surrealism between the International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936 and the outbreak of the Second World War, when he served in the Coastguard Cornwall. This homage painting was created in 1942.
Photographed in the Tate Modern Museum in London.
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While living in Paris in the late 1950s, artist Martial Raysse (b. 1936) started to assemble sculptures from plastic objects he collected. They were often sourced from Prisunic, a French department store that sold cheap, mass-produced goods. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Martial Raysse, Necropolis
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American artist Robert Gober (b. 1954) meticulously hand-makes his objects rather than purchasing them. Often, he and his team of studio assistants will use traditional art-making techniques or materials. The aim is not to imitate an object exactly, but to create a sensation of something recognizable yet strange. Such is the case with Dog Bed (1986–87).
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After discontinuing his studies at the Munich Academy of Art, German Expressionist Franz Marc(1880 – 1916) spent time in France and the Alpine town of Sindelsdorf, where he painted relentlessly.
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