Taos Moderns
In the 1940s, Taos, New Mexico, became an important crossroads in contemporary American art, a place where the influences of European and American modernism merged together. Artists came from all across the U.S., attracted to New Mexico by the space, the brilliant light, and the diverse cultures of indigenous Pueblo and Hispanic peoples. The influx of dozens of artists by the 1950s established Taos as one of the centers of modernist art. Although they never created a formal group, a number of these artists exhibited together in art galleries and museums and were collectively known as the Taos Moderns. Stylistically, Taos Modern works are either abstract or non-objective compositions of pure form. Rather than depicting the surface beauty of the landscape or figurative portraits, they seek to capture the underlying structure of a subject to reveal its pure meaning.
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