The Rite of Spring
1913
Noise from the 1913 premiere audience drowned out the orchestra, so Nijinsky stood in the wings shouting the counts at his dancers.
★ 9.3
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1913
Showing 34 works across all media from 1913
Composition VII
1913 · Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Kandinsky made more than thirty studies for this and then painted the four-meter canvas in three days, apocalypse dissolved past recognition.
★ 8.1
Black Lines
1913 · Guggenheim, New York City
Black skeins and floating patches of color with nothing recognizable in it at all. Kandinsky thought painting could work on you like music.
★ 6.7
O Pioneers!
1913 · 122 pages
Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's failing Nebraska claim and mortgages it to buy more land while the neighbors give up and leave. Cather made the American prairie a landscape fit for epic.
★ 6.7
Man with a Guitar
1913 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
A curve of the guitar, some stenciled letters, and otherwise a lattice of brown and grey. Braque and Picasso developed this together, canvas by canvas.
★ 6.5
Paris Through the Window
1913 · Guggenheim, New York City
A train crosses the sky upside down, a man drifts past on a parachute, and the cat on the sill has a human face.
★ 6.1
The Virgin
1913 · Narodni Galerie, Prague
Sleeping women tangled into a whirlpool of pattern and flowers, one of them at the center just about to wake up.
★ 5.7
In Search of Lost Time · 1913
Deer in the Forest I
1913 · Phillips Collection, Washington, District of Columbia
The deer have almost dissolved into the crystalline planes of the wood, which is exactly what Marc was after.
★ 5.2
The Foxes
1913 · Private collection
Foxes curled together and assembled out of shards of grey, blue and rust. Marc was killed at Verdun three years after painting it.
★ 5.2
The Sinking of the Titanic
1913 · Saint Louis Art Museum (Saint Louis), Saint Louis
Beckmann painted the disaster a year after it happened, borrowing Géricault's raft, and it now reads as a rehearsal for the war.
★ 4.8