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Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change.
For artist Ai Weiwei, the calamity of our time is the disaster of the displaced.
In the autumn of 1914, Mondrian had an epiphany that would bring true abstraction.
Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change.
Some of the strongest contemporary art has the magical power of transformation.
Despite his interest in portraiture, Catlin he said the Native Americans must perish.
Thomas Cole regarded the US landscape as being what he called the undefiled work of Gods.
Otto Dix and his generation had borne witness to the horrors of World War I.
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Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change.
Explore light and color in art in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy.
Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature.
Travel east and west— to Renaissance Italy and the contemporaneous Islamic empires.
See how art became the great interface when distant cultures met for the first time.
Consider how religion has inspired art and art has inspired divine representation.
Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity.