Atlas Trail
From Rembrandt to Kane: Eight New Voices in the Arts Atlas
Eight stops through this wave's own research, tracing a Dutch master painter, a Japanese printmaker, a Spanish co-founder of Cubism, the honestly disputed edges of Surrealism, and the American artists who reshaped dance, jazz and film in the twentieth century.
Stop 1 of 8.
Artists
Rembrandt: the Dutch Golden Age master of light and shadow, whose place inside or beside Baroque painting is itself a live question among historians.
Stop 2 of 8.
Works
The Great Wave off Kanagawa: Hokusai's cresting wave, the most famous image to come out of Japanese woodblock printmaking.
Stop 3 of 8.
Movements
Cubism: Picasso and Braque fracturing the single fixed viewpoint that had governed Western painting since the Renaissance.
Stop 4 of 8.
Works
Guernica: Picasso's 1937 response to the bombing of a Basque town, one of art history's most direct answers to war.
Stop 5 of 8.
Artists
Frida Kahlo: claimed by the Surrealists, who saw dream logic in her work; she said she painted her own reality instead.
Stop 6 of 8.
Artists
Louis Armstrong: the New Orleans trumpeter and singer whose 1920s recordings made the soloist jazz's central figure.
Stop 7 of 8.
Artists
Martha Graham: the choreographer whose contraction and release technique helped found American modern dance as part of the broader Modernist movement.
Stop 8 of 8.
Works
Citizen Kane: Orson Welles' 1941 debut feature, still cited for the narrative and technical ambition of a first film.
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