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All working within this field and giving their own voice. so we wanted to represent that dynamic period of modernism, where iranian artists were really exploring different ways of expressing their modernity. we have oil paintings, sculpture, and photography. we have film, installation work, and animation. and over half our artists are women, so really creating a very dynamic voice. within the era of modernism, it's interesting to look at some of those key artists, all of whom are iconic today. so we can look at someone like sirak melkonian — his work, "veiled woman", won the first prize

They are having tea on a balcony overlooking a park with a very large trees. the portraits of the women — their faces have an incredible stillness. i think what's happened is that isma'iljalayir wouldn't have had access — so he's been given photographs of them in order to create the painting. that sort of leads us through to the 20th century — and there, we show examples of the art of iran after the introduction of art school training in the western—style in the 19405, and how iran in the 19605 and '705 developed a form of modernism that was in tune with international movements, but al...

One of Germany's greatest postwar architects, Gottfried Böhm died June 9 at the age of 101. He leaves behind a grand architectural legacy of buildings that are also sculptures.

Gertrude Stein a homage to the iconic author's role as patron, critic, and friend to the creative pioneers who paved the way to Modernism

50 famous paintings and the stories behind them Erin Joslyn, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail 50 famous paintings and the stories behind them A picture is worth a thousand words, and like texts, art is often meant to be “read” through critical deconstruction. Paintings can be far more complicated than they appear at first glance and difficult to decipher if the viewer doesn’t speak the same tongue. Iconography—the symbolic language of a given work of art—can be sophisticated and complex, reflecting the collective consciousness or drawn from the artist’s personal experience. Why w...