"By the turn of the 1950s Rothko had arrived at the pictorial format which was to serve him for the rest of his career; horizontal lozenges of soft-edged color hovering in a large vertically oriented field. These clouds of color were seen by...
"The assertive flatness of the implacable field of red is emphasized by the linear vertical 'zips'. Rather than functioning as 'drawing' within space, these reinforce and delimit the space as a whole. White 'zips' in Newman's works also evoke...
"Duchamp's Boîte 'unpacked' in such a way that certain sections slid out to become free-standing display boards, whilst a sheaf of folders and black mounts bore other reproductions of works from his output. In all, it contained 69 items....
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"In the mid-1980s Richter produced abstract paintings as well as realist 'photo-paintings'. […] he appeared here to be recapitulating the ideological options underpinning postwar modernism in so far as his own transplantation from Eastern to...
"Alice Aycock […] bases her forms on the logic of the imagination. […] Aycock revels in conjuring the past. The rich associative content of her sculpture is often nurtured by fanciful titles and accompanying texts that refer to history,...
Panel from Gods of the Modern World series. "Orozco moved closer to the Expressionists in spirit, at first working in the stylized, sculpturesque manner of [Ernst] Barlach, before later adopting the more dynamic and fluid forms of El Greco,...
Environmental art; Islands; Trees; Bays (Bodies of water); Bodies of water; Water; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views
"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...
Sculpture; Heads (Anatomy); Portraits; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Men; Hairstyles; Crowns; Headdresses; Headgear; Leaves; Symbols
"[…] this portrait probably came from the forum's Augusteum (a shrine dedicated to the imperial family). […] In this portrait, the hair is combed forward, with short bangs over the forehead, formed by straight and regularly laid locks that...
"Mosaic from the Augustan era that decorated the open triclinium of domus I, 5, 2; it is an allegory of the fleeting nature of earthly pleasures and of the leveling power of death. Below the skull, a butterfly and a wheel evoke the soul and...
