Museum of Modern Art

Cubism was a revolutionary style for modern art that is developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Barques, it is the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20^th century in response to the world that was changing with unprecedented speed. This paint by Pablo Picasso is “Factory at Horta de Ebro” in 1909. It’s an oil on canvas and its about 50 cm by 60 cm.

It’s a way of denying the essential difference between reality and a painting, and so flattened his image and explored the surfaces and qualities of the 2 dimensional canvases. Its colorful and all the buildings are facing toward to the center.

Surrealism was developed in the early 20^th century, it was sought to explore the subconscious mind or dream world, it visual paradox and defies logic influenced by the works of Marx and Freud it became a major international movement. This painting by Vladimir Kush is “Breach”, it’s an oil on canvas and size of 31 by 38 inches done in the late 1990. Normally a whale would be inseparable with water, but in this colorful painting, a group of human in the foreground tossing a giant whale on a tarpaulin made of sea water. The whale surfacing in the ocean appear as if they are emerging from out subconscious mind and their leaps above the water always evoke surprise and delight.