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December 23, 2012–April 15, 2013

In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists—Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Robert Delaunay—presented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, 1910–25 celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork, tracing the development of abstraction as it moved through a network of modern artists, from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, sweeping across nations and across media. The exhibition brings together many of the most influential works in abstraction’s early history and covers a wide range of artistic production, including paintings, drawings, books, sculptures, films, photographs, sound poems, atonal music, and non-narrative dance, to draw a cross-media portrait of these watershed years.

When: December 23, 2012–April 15, 2013

Where: The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019-5497
(212) 708-9400

Tags: 1910–25, abstract pictures, artists, artwork, exhibition, Francis Picabia, Frantisek Kupka, Inventing Abstraction, Kazimir Malevich, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, New York, Piet Mondrian, portrait, Robert Delaunay, The Museum of Modern Art, Vasily Kandinsky

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