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Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978), Life Begins, 1936, American. Oil and collage on masonite. 57.2 x 67.3 cm. Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (http://www.lacma.org), Los Angeles, Calif; purchased with funds provided by Mrs W. H. Russell (by exchange), the Blanche and George Jones Fund, and the Modern and Contemportary Art Council, with the cooperation of the Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Foundation and Tobey C. Moss Gallery. Reproduced by permission of the Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Foundation.

Modern art, it might be said, has as many modes as a teenager has moods, and it is often just as bewildering. Especially after World War II, when the center of the art world shifted from Paris to New York City, new terms to describe this art were introduced at a dizzying pace and in an argot often unfamiliar even to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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