Tag Archives: avant-garde


Frederick Kiesler

Friedrich Kiesler. Design for a Warehouse, elevated building. Ground floor free for circulation

Frederick Kiesler, ‘Design for a Warehouse, elevated building – ground floor free for circulation’


Hans Richter

Hans Richter - Houses, 1917

Hans Richter, ‘Houses’ (1917)


Olga Rozanova

Explosion in a Trunk from Universal War Olga Rozanova

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Olga Rozanova, ‘Explosion in a Trunk’ and ‘Destruction of Gardens’ from Universal War, an artist book by Aleksei Kruchenykh (1916)

‘Battle of the Futurist and the Ocean’ (~1916)


Alice Neel

Frank O'Hara

Alice Neel, ‘Frank O’Hara’ (1960)


William Basinski

William Basinski, ‘The Disintegration Loops’, performed live by The Wordless Music Orchestra, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2011)


Léon Bakst

Léon Bakst, costume for a brigand in Fokine’s ballet Daphnis and Chloé (1912)


Edward Krasinski

Edward Krasinski‘s studio in Warsaw, Poland.

In the late 60s blue Scotch tape became Krasinski’s medium and trademark material. The thin blue line running at the height of 130 cm, first pasted around trees and pigsty walls in the village of Zalesie near Warsaw, soon stretched across gallery windows as well as his own living/ working space.