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The London Impressionist and Modern Art sales led the market earlier this month with a total of $285.0 million, up 20% from the prior year, with the evening sale recording the highest total ever for any sale in Sotheby's Europe. The top lot, Franz Marc's Weidende Pferde III, sold for $24.3 million, the highest price for an Impressionist or Modern work so far in 2008. The average lot value of the evening sale was $4.3 million with 70% of the 67 lots sold achieving $1 million or more.
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Modern art is a general term used for most of the artistic work reckoned anywhere from the early 17th century until the present time.[1] (Recent art production is often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art). Modern art refers to the new approach to art which placed emphasis on representing emotions, themes, and various abstractions. Artists experimented with new ways of seeing, with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art, often moving further toward abstraction.
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Art at mid-century is one of the MFAH´s outstanding strengths. The Abstract Expressionist collection deserves particular recognition, as it contains key works by Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Franz Kline. The next generation is ... well represented, with paintings by Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland. Post-World War II sculpture includes examples by Picasso and Alexander Calder, and Assemblage can be studied through works by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. Other styles and approaches represented in the collection include Hard-Edge Abstraction (with examples by Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin), Pop Art (Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and James Rosenquist), Minimalism (Donald Judd and Jo Baer), and current movements. Recently the collection has been enhanced by the addition of major works by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, and other modern masters.
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[One] theory claims that modern art is by nature rebellious and that this rebellion is most evident in a quest for originality and a continual desire to shock. The term avant-garde, which is often applied to modern art, comes from a French military term meaning “advance guard,” and suggests that what is modern is what is new, original, or cutting-edge. To be sure, many artists in the 20th century tried to redefine what art means, or attempted to expand the definition of art to include concepts, materials, or techniques that were never before associated with art. In 1917, for example, French artist Marcel Duchamp exhibited everyday, mass-produced, utilitarian objects—including a bicycle wheel and a urinal—as works of art. In the 1950s and 1960s, American artist Allan Kaprow used his own body as an artistic medium in spontaneous performances that he declared to be artworks. In the 1970s American earthwork artist Robert Smithson used unaltered elements of the environment—earth, rocks, and water—as material for his sculptural pieces.
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The Detroit Art Institute is newly renovated and has a new exhibition of the work of Julie Mehretu called "City Sitings" opening November23,07. Julie was born in Ethiopia and raised and educated in Michigan and Rhode Island according to her bio on dia.org. Read more about her large abstract paintings and their meaning on the Detroit Art Institute's website, dia.org. (Image of Julie on front of the Rivera Murals borrowed from dia.org.)
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The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection includes such well known names as Aloise, Carlo, Henry Darger, Madge Gill, Hauser, J.B. Murry, Sekulic, Oswald Tschirtner, Van Genk, Scottie Wilson, Wölfli, Zemankova and numerous known and lesser-known artists most of whom are ... represented in the Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland. Outsider artists do not belong to movements or schools and are rarely influenced by Art History. From positions outside the artistic mainstream, they create work that exists beyond the limits of convention. As Monika Kinley has described, are '… artists who are untrained and work for and by, themselves. They know little of cultural history or the tradition of Fine Art'.
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