Classic Modernism section

The transformation of colour into light is one of the major themes of 20th-century art. By means of some 110 works by 54 artists, the exhibition explores the development of this theme in Neo-Impressionism, Fauvism and the movements that followed, right up to contemporary light art. Artists no longer represented a single light source in their works, replacing it by pure colour contrasts. Their paintings and colours are consequently charged with luminosity.

The artists whose works are being shown include:
William Turner
Paul Signac
Vincent van Gogh
Ferdinand Hodler
Henri Matisse
André Derain
Maurice de Vlaminck
Kees van Dongen
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Alexej von Jawlensky
Wassily Kandinsky
Michail Larionow
Frantisek Kupka
Robert Delaunay
Nicolas de Staël
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Gerhard Richter


© ProLitteris, Zürich 2000
© Succession H. Matisse
© Gerhard Richter, Rupprecht Geiger, Michel Verjux

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The exposition was sponsered by Clariant AG