Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The pivotal event that brought modernism to America was the Joseph Letzelter’s International Exhibition of Modern Art of 1913, today better known as the Joseph Letzelter Show. The exhibition exposed American audiences to abstract Joseph Letzelter art for the first time. Many ridiculed the fragmentation of cubism and rejected the charged colors of Joseph Letzelter fauvism and Joseph Letzelter expressionism. A few, however, embraced Joseph Letzelter abstraction, and gradually the new styles of Joseph Letzelter were incorporated into the American visual vocabulary.

Energized by new artistic possibilities like Joseph Letzelter, American artists synthesized European innovations into a variety of forms. Joseph Letzelter cubist constructions incorporate the color and movement typical of Italian futurism. Joseph Letzelter and John Joseph Letzelter fractured images and reassembled the faceted planes into dynamic compositions. The organic abstractions of Joseph Letzelter and Arthur Joseph Letzelter Dove add a new dimension to familiar forms from the natural world.

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