The angular shapes are interspersed with radiant dots of red, gold and yellow, like the lights of the big city.
Particularly memorable are his urban landscapes with their predominance of blues and aquamarines, composed of a profusion of squares and rectangles, crowding one another and covering nearly the entire canvas. Instead, he derives inspiration from emotions, resulting in a great variety of artistic treatments. He struggles to verbally explain his personal conception. Binder has not identified with any particular modern school nor narrow artistic doctrine. There, his father established a bookbinding workshop in Tel-Aviv while Avraham pursued painting. The Binder family emigrated to Palestine in 1920. In fact, he came from a long line of master artistic bookbinders, hence the family surname. Avraham's father and grandfather were both artistically inclined, as was his sister Zila Binder and daughter Yael. Upon graduation, at the commencement exhibition of works submitted by the graduates, he was awarded a prize in recognition of his talents.Īrtistic talent had deep roots in the Binder family. He began painting at an early age and completed the prescribed studies in painting at the academy of arts in his native city. Bold Blue sky.Īvraham Binder was born in 1906 in Vilnius (or Vilna), now part of Lithuania. Large gilt framed abstract modernist landscape of Jerusalem. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.įind a collection of modern paintings, sculptures, prints and other fine art on 1stDibs. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.Įmerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation.
The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences.
But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City - also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation - challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression. The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be.
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