On the fine-art side, paintings in the show by Willem de Kooning, Josef Albers, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, Leon Golub and Jackson Pollock; sculptures by Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, David Smith and Isamu Noguchi; and photographs by Berenice Abbott, Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind reveal the new visual vocabulary of curvy abstractions.
Most striking are three side-by-side paintings of women by Dix that show the female body in the harshest possible light.
Painting #1 Painting #2 We recommend that students work in pairs, comparing these two paintings side by side so they can look back and forth between the two.
His eccentric arrangements put million-dollar paintings side by side with crafts, fixtures and even spoons.
It surely makes sense to set Bacon's paintings side by side with works by the masters he loved.
Duveen and his lawyers decided to place the two paintings side by side, in Paris, and to have a great many important picture experts pronounce on the pair.
Describing the hanging of old paintings side by side with new renderings of the same image, it talks about "the lie at the core of the work".
"I've counted six so far," said a visitor examining what will be one of the rarest and most stupendous spot the difference challenges imaginable – two of Van Gogh's sunflower paintings side by side for a once-in-a-lifetime display at the National Gallery.
The imagery of "Stillness" resembled two glowing watercolor paintings, side by side, that morphed so slowly, changes were almost imperceptible.
"When I first perceived the two paintings side by side, it was very obvious for me that there is a very small but evident difference in perspectives," Carbon, of the University of Bamberg in Germany, wrote in an email to Live Science.
"Views From the Other Side," featuring the paintings of Alla Podolsky and John Treichler.
