1928

Showing 3 artworks from 1928

Sculpture · Modernism

Bird in Space

Constantin Brancusi

1928 · Museum of Modern Art, New York

American customs taxed it as industrial metal until Brancusi v. United States in 1928 forced the law to recognize abstract sculpture as art.

★ 8.6

Allegorical painting · Surrealism

The False Mirror

Rene Magritte

1928 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City

One enormous eye with a cloudy sky for an iris. Whether it is looking out or reflecting back is the question.

★ 6.9

Symbolic painting · Expressionism

Castle and Sun

Paul Klee

1928 · Private collection

Small colored blocks stack up into a town like stained glass, with a red sun above. Klee taught at the Bauhaus and kept the whimsy.

★ 6.3