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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

The drapery of a kneeling figure c. 1491 - 94.
(detail)

In april 1483 Leonardo was commissioned to paint an alterpiece, now know as the Virgin of the Rocks, for a church in Milan. A first version (Louvre, Paris) was not delivered, for uncertain reasons; instead he began a second version (National Gallery, London) in the early 1490s, which was finally installed in 1508. This is the study for the Angel's drapery in the second painting.

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The Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art in France. It is located in Paris in the Centre Pompidou. It is among the most visited art museums in the world. The museum has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe from the 20th- and 21th - century, with more than 100,000 works of art by 6,400 artists from 90 countries the collection begins in with Fauvism in 1905.

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Otto Dix
Erinnerungen an die Spiegelsäle von Brüssel,
1920

The explosion into multiple facets borrowed from Cubism is used to present an ironie and trivial vision of the post-war society.

ln the style of a characteristic Dadaist caricature, Otto Dix reflects on the scandalous character of the war when German officers frequented cafes transformed into brothels. Half-man, half-automat, an apoplectic general is represented drinking champagne and fondling a generously endowed woman.The multiple mirrors reflecting different points of view reveal the anatomy of the pr******te.

Otto Dix (1891 - 1969)
Was a German painter and printmaker. He is best known for his brutal but honest depictions of the atrocities of World War I and the bourgeois decadence of the interwar Weimar Republic. He is considered one of the most important painters in the The new reality (Die neue Sachlichkeit).

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Jean dubuffet (1901- 1985)
Bel Costumé, 1973
Epoxy resin, polyurethane paint and galvanised steel.

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