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Color pastels, colored chalk, colorful chalk. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
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Artists, Painters, & Architects
"Deux Fantassins Casques (Two Helmeted Infantrymen)" Roger de La Fresnaye, 1917. Pen and black ink with wash, 30.8x19.4 cm
Cubism: Art and Artists
Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.
Can You Match These Lesser-Known Paintings to Their Artists?
"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.
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Born December 7, 1894 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died June 24, 1964 (aged 69) • New York City • New York
Movement / Style Cubism • abstract art

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Arthur G. Dove
American painter
Bearden, Romare
Romare Bearden
American painter
Alexander Archipenko
Alexander Archipenko
Ukrainian-American artist
Bradley Walker Tomlin
American painter
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956
Georges Braque
French artist
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter
Paul Klee
Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Ian Fairweather
Australian painter
Jacques Villon
French painter
Eiffel Tower, an oil painting on canvas by Robert Delaunay from 1910–11, is on display at the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. The painting was one of Delaunay's contributions to the art movement called cubism.
Robert Delaunay
French painter
Henry Darger
American artist and writer
Max Ernst
Max Ernst
German artist
Robert Rauschenberg: Monogram
Robert Rauschenberg
American artist
Marca-Relli with one of his paintings
Conrad Marca-Relli
American artist
Duchamp, Marcel
Marcel Duchamp
French artist
Rudolf Bauer
German-born artist
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Carmen Herrera
Carmen Herrera
American painter
Malvin Gray Johnson
Malvin Gray Johnson
American artist

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