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Also Known As Christian Emil Marie Küpper • I. K. Bonset
Born August 30, 1883 • Utrecht • Netherlands
Died March 7, 1931 (aged 47) • Davos • Switzerland
Movement / Style Dada • Neoplasticism • abstract art • De Stijl
Subjects Of Study abstract art • De Stijl

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Theo van Doesburg: Counter-Composition V
Doesburg, Theo van: Composition IX, Opus 18: Abstract Version of Card Players
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Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
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Ad Reinhardt
American artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
American artist
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Sérusier, Paul: The Flowered Gate
Paul Sérusier
French painter
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Italian artist and author
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Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
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Roger Fry
British art critic and painter
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Chen Shizeng
Chinese painter and critic
Amédée Ozenfant
Amédée Ozenfant
French painter
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Giovanni Morelli
Italian art critic
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Benjamin Robert Haydon
English painter and writer
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Clive Bell
British critic
La Farge, John: Flowers on a Japanese Tray on a Mahogany Table
John La Farge
American painter
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Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle
Italian writer
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Shitao
Chinese painter
Paul Signac
Paul Signac
French painter
Coypel, Charles-Antoine: Painting Ejecting Thalia
Charles-Antoine Coypel
French artist

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