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ARTIST: Joseph Kadanec (Louisiana, 1898 - 1967) TITLE: Cityscape - Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA (titled on verso) MEDIUM: oil on board CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light. ART SIZE: 20 x 16 inches / 50 x 40 cm FRAME SIZE: 22 x 18 inches / 55 x 45 cm SIGNATURE: lower right and on verso CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 124417 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Joseph Kadanec (born 1898) was active/lived in Louisiana. Joseph Kadanec's creative work was largely influenced by the 1900s and 1910s. The first decades of the twentieth century were characterized by dynamic advances in pictorial art. It was the era of post-Impressionism and of experimentation, including the first ventures into Expressionism and Abstraction. Many different groups of artists or loosely associated communities of the avant-garde in different major cities around the world developed different modes of these key innovations. The horrors of the First World War hatched important developments in the psychological uses of art, including the absurdist stylings of Dadaism which arose in Paris, Berlin, Zurich and Hannover, and which brought recognition for artists like Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Hannah Hoch and Kurt Schwitters. Many of these ideas would go on to flourish further in Surrealism - the first art movement to fully incorporate psychology, and in particular ideas about the unconscious which had been developed by Sigmund Freud and his disciple Carl Jung.