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Cox painted Gray and Gold shortly after the United States joined the Second World War, and its image of amber waves of grain threatened by ominous storm clouds likely has symbolic overtones. The painting's foreground features an intersection of two dirt lanes, as well as a telephone pole emblazoned with political campaign posters. The artist seems to imply that American democracy is at a crossroads during this time of combat against the spread of fascism in Europe and Asia. Interestingly the work was inspired by the landscape around Cox's hometown of Terre Haute, Indiana, a location nicknamed "The Crossroads of America" due to the junction of major north-south and east-west national highways within its city limits. The museum purchased this painting out of a traveling exhibition entitled "Artists for Victory," which consisted of works by artists who wanted to assist in the war effort.

 
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but perhaps the most important symbol in the picture isn't mentioned there, namely the way in which there are telephone poles but no telephone wires, indicating a lack of communication
 
clearly from the famous moment in if...

I don't know what that picture is from, but agreed.

So then someone else had a newspaper image of someone in this position, and because I also work in such an associative way, I thought, this image is going to stretch itself to the edges of this canvas. And after I painted it, I thought, it is like measuring your own grave—making art is actually like measuring your own grave. The canvas is almost like a coffin for the figure, because all my figures always seem to struggle with the fact that they are paintings
 
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The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, Group IV, 1907, by Hilma af Klint.

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Fell down a rabbit hole....expressionism? german expressionism? im not sure.... i love the colour contrast popping

Alexei Jawlensky

Kleines Haus vor Buschwerk (Französische Landschaft), 1906.
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Stillleben mit Blumen und Orangen, c. 1909
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Das Tal - Murnau 1911
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Really love the colours on this - amazing painting by August Macke
Gemüsefelder 1911
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Seascape by German-Danish Expressionist Emil Nolde. His art was labelled ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis. This meant that he was forbidden to paint or exhibit. In fact over 1000 of his works were removed from galleries in Germany. Ironic, as he was a Nazi and anti-semite himself, and considered Expressionism to be a distinctly German style.
 
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