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New York, George Bellows | National Gallery of Art

https://www.nga.gov/node/856001

Completed in February 1911, New York is a large, ambitious painting in which George Bellows captured the essence of modern life in New York City. Bellows did not intend to represent a specific, identifiable place in the city. He instead drew on several bustling commercial districts to create an imaginary composite, an impossibly crowded image that would best convey a sense of the city’s frenetic pace.
CHARLES BROCK: What I love about it is its wild ambition.

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Henri Matisse | National Gallery of Art

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/provenance/1706-henri-matisse

Introduced to painting while recovering from appendicitis at age 19, Henri Matisse abandoned his job as a law clerk to compose conventional Dutch-inspired still lifes and interiors using a somber palette. After moving from northern France to Paris in 1891, his colors brightened and his style evolved under the influence of Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin , and others.
This experimentation—dubbed fauvism (from “wild beasts”)—was a brief but crucial

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