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Loo Family Gallery
By the early 1900s, American artists had been introduced to the visual language of European Modern art. American painters began to embrace expressive forms and bold colors. Cubism in particular offered American artists such as John Marin, Arthur Dove, and Marsden Hartley a new form of expression with its fractured picture planes.
While early 20th century Modern artists kept one foot in recognizable images, later artists such as Richard Diebenkorn (shown on cover) took a bold step by eliminating identifiable objects and scenes in order to inspire a purely emotional response in the viewer. In much of today’s art, the concept, or idea is just as important as the art’s visual attributes.
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