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5 Hot Lots Coming to Auction in July

WorthPoint

WorthPoint’s Industry Partners are offering collectors some interesting and sought-after pieces in July, including sentimental shell art, a vision in stone, a prized beer tray, a surreal landscape painting, and a salesman’s sample for an iconic track tractor. ELDRED’S AUCTION GALLERY Eldred’s Auction Gallery, estimate: $400-$799.

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A century of Robert Rauschenberg: Blurring Boundaries, Redefining Art

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In what would have been his 100th year, we look back at his career of vivid experimentation and breaking rules – between artistic disciplines, between cultures, and between art and life. “Painting relates to both art and life. And this mixing of artistic materials produced his landmark series of Combines (1954–64).

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Les Nabis Revealed: The 8 Artists Who Redefined Modern Art as We Know It

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Energized to achieve a “beauty beyond visible reality,” the Nabis group of French artists challenged convention to create a new artistic vision, as they harnessed Paul Gauguin’s synthetism to envisage an exciting alternative that would usher in the age of modern art. He also painted many nudes of his wife Marthe de Méligny.

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What is Modernism? A Guide to Art, Literature, and Design

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This pivotal movement influenced art, design, literature, and philosophy, leading to an immense cultural transformation worldwide. But what exactly is Modernism, and why and how has it impacted the world as we know it today? What is Modernism art and which artists embraced the movement? What is Modernism in Art?

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Exploring the Influence of Zen Philosophy on Art and Design

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It’s the Zen influence of asymmetry (fukinsei) that’s perhaps most apparent throughout the history of art and can be seen in paintings from Caravaggio to van Gogh. Typical of the orderly repetition of Minimalism, her paintings were also tied to her spirituality , which was drawn from Zen Buddhism and American Transcendentalism.

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Constructivism: The Intersection of Art and Industry in the Avant-Garde Movement

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Emerging from the 1917 revolution in the newly formed Soviet Union, Constructivism wasn’t only the most influential modern art movement in 20th century Russia, but its visualization of a new aesthetic language brought with it a sea change in how we view art that redefined the role of art in society.

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“Focus on What’s Essential to You” - Franklin Parrasch on Making Your Own Way in the Art World

Art Dealers Association of America

What inspired you to pursue a career in visual art? I was five years old, in kindergarten in New Jersey, and my friend’s mother, who was an artist, took us to the Museum of Modern Art one day. Installation view of “ John McCracken: red, black, blue | Painting and Sculpture, 1966-1971, ” 2015. Photo by Kent Pell.