MODERNISMInternational modernismIn the 1960´s the collection of international modern art expanded and became an important part of the Didrichsen collection as a whole. In 1962 the Didrichsens procured their first modern work of art from a gallery in Switzerland: a gouache by Fernand Léger. Most of the works of art were bought from european galleries but some were also purchased directly from the artists themselves, e.g. Robert Jacobsen and Henry Moore. Sonia Delaunay signed and wrote a dedication on a work of art that the Didrichsens procured from her. One condition for the Wassily Kandinsky exhibition at Ateneum in 1966 was that at least three of the painters works would be sold in Finland. One of the paintings was bought by Maire Gullichsen and another, a gouache, by the Didrichsens. In 1967 an other work by Kandinsky - a colourful painting of Murnau - was bought from the artist´s widow in Paris. In 1966, when the Didrichsens were purchasing a sculpture by Pablo Picasso, Marie-Louise was instead charmed by one of the paintings that Picasso had painted on a series of litographies. Later they also bought one of the original litographies. The term Modernism usually refers to central ideas among painters, writers, musicians and architects in the twentieth century, starting with cubism and Pablo Picasso. The term can also be applied to those forward-looking architects, painters and designers who, from the 1880s on, forged a new and diverse vocabulary principally to escape Historicism. Modernism has also been defined as an idealistic current, with its rooths in the industrialization starting in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
