DETAILS
- Artist
- Kurt Schwitters
- Date
- 1947
ART MOVEMENTS
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THE ARTIST
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters transformed everyday fragments into art, famously coining 'Merz' from a bank's discarded letterhead.
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Sun Spot
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Impregnazione
Piero Manzoni · 1958
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The Indestructibles
Philip Evergood · 1946 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Temptation of St. Anthony
Ivan Puni · 1945 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Nighthawks
Okada Saburosuke · 1942 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Red No. 2
Sam Francis · 1954 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Halleluiah
Max Ernst · 1948 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Dugout
Norman Rockwell · 1948 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Untitled (Woman-Bottle)
René Magritte · 1943 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Wheatfield
Georges Braque · 1951 · Art Institute of Chicago

