Modern & Contemporary Art

Impressionists like Edgar Degas experimented with photography and inspired a photographic movement that aimed to convey the same effects as their groundbreaking paintings.

Apart from painting, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec enjoyed studying and collecting Japanese art.

During her visit to New York, Isa Genzken witnessed the 9/11 attack and later created a series of works devoted to the tragedy.

Soviet Socialist Realism transformed over time, turning from modernist influences in the 1920s to realistic conservatism of the 1950s.

Pablo Picasso’s Cubism was based on an intellectual exploration of planes and spaces, limiting the color palette to monochrome greys and browns.

Modern artists like Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso found inspiration in Greek and Roman mythology and even associated themselves with its heroes.

Pablo Picasso’s distinctive artistic periods often corresponded with transformative periods of his life, changes in social circles and locations, and an endless quest for inspiration.

Berthe Morisot often painted domestic interiors, as they were one of the rare spaces available to women at her time.