![]() ![]() He has been called a Cubist, an abstract artist, a modernist, and a post-Cubist, but this circumscribed his work to a limited territory, outside that of the second ‘ modernists ’ (Abstract Expressionists) and the ‘ post-modernists ’ (Pop Artists for example). He experimented in form, working first towards flatness and a negation of illusory depth, then negating the importance of subject matter. Davis acknowledged the importance of these artists for his work (1945). Art critics and art historians explain that he wanted to develop a modernist pictorial language following the aesthetic innovations of Duchamp, Picabia, or Matisse 1. ![]() ![]() After the Show, Davis decided to be a “ modern artist ” (Davis, 1945), without actually defining the term ‘ modern ’. Stuart Davis’s Idiosyncratic Modernism’ ( (.)ġ Born in 1892, American painter Stuart Davis grew up in Philadelphia and New York as modernity shaped the American metropolis and European modernist aesthetics were discovered in galleries and magazines like Alfred Stieglitz ’ s or later at the Armory Show of Modern Art (New York, 1913). 1 See for example Barbara Haskell’s essay ‘Quotidian Truth. ![]()
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