'Little Owl' by Picasso 1951/53

 

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - quote Pablo Picasso

 

'Head of Fernande', bronze by Pablo Picasso - 1909

"Cubism is the art of creating new wholes with elements that are not based on the reality of what to see, but on the reality of what one represent." - quote Guillaume Apollinaire

Head of Fernande, bronze by Pablo Picasso 1909, 40.5 x 24 x 26 cm - Picasso Museum Paris

 

Lyonel Feininger 'Bridge V'-1919

“The pleasure of a mind engrossed in an image.” - Andrew Brighton (former Curator Public Programmes Tate Modern)

Feininger painted 'Bridge V' as the last image in a series depicting an old stone bridge spanning the Ilm River in Oberweimar, Germany. The earliest painting in the series dates to 1913, the same year that Feininger exhibited with Vasily Kandinsky and the Blue Rider group, a loose association of German expressionist artists. This work—made six years later and soon after the artist joined the faculty of the avant-garde Bauhaus school—reflects a new mode of expression, inspired by Cubism, in which the subject dissolves into transparent layers and planes of muted colors.

(source: Philadelphia Museum of Art -  http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/52283.html )

'Le Chahut' by Georges Seurat - 1889/1890

Le Chahut (The Can-can) by Georges Seurat  (1859-1891) - Kröller-Müller collection (NL) - 170cm x 141cm

Hammershøi's 'Dust Motes' - 1900

“Hammershøi doesn’t scream, he wispers.” - quote Andrew Graham-Dixon in ‘The Art of Scandinavia’ reffering to ‘The scream’ of Edvard Munch.

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916): Sunbeams or Sunlight. “Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams”. Oil on canvas | 70 x 59 cm | 1900 – Danish Symbolist.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2008/jun/25/art.denmark