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The Procession, Seville by Francis Picabia, 1912
Apparently this is one of the paintings people point to when they talk about cubism pushing all the way toward abstraction — there's barely anything left that reads as a literal scene. It's tied to a procession he remembered from Spain, but almost none of that original imagery survived into what's on the canvas.
Erisava: I think this is trying to overwhelm you on purpose.
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Glass and Checkerboard by Juan Gris, 1917
They say painters in this circle tightened up after the First World War — fewer overlapping shards, flatter shapes, something closer to order than the earlier, more splintered cubism. This one's from that stretch, and the checkerboard corner is one of the only clues there was ever a table under all this.
Erisava: Besides the checkerboard, am I missing an actual object in here?
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Meteoro by Bruno Giorgi, 1967
The gardens and pond around it were laid out by Roberto Burle Marx, better known for the wavy pavement patterns along Rio's beaches.
Erisava: Those sharp edges feel so painful to see.
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I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold by Charles Demuth, 1928
Apparently this whole thing started as a poem - a friend of his wrote about seeing a gold '5' clang past on a red fire truck, and this is the painted version of that.
Erisava: Is this a painting, or just a really fancy street sign?