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Composition
Diagonal Arrangement
Browse works built around diagonal sweeps, slanted groupings, and directional compositional movement. This composition page currently surfaces 112 works by 68 artists across 25 institutions. It blends museum tags, public collections, and vision-detected diagonals, slanted arrangements, and directional movement.
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Artists with this composition
José Clemente Orozco
5 works surfaced for this composition.
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
5 works surfaced for this composition.
Piet Mondrian
5 works surfaced for this composition.
Claes Oldenburg
4 works surfaced for this composition.
Paul Klee
4 works surfaced for this composition.
Alighiero Boetti
3 works surfaced for this composition.
Claude Monet
3 works surfaced for this composition.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
3 works surfaced for this composition.
Museums with this composition
Museum of Modern Art
35 works surfaced for this composition.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
21 works surfaced for this composition.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
7 works surfaced for this composition.
Statens Museum for Kunst
6 works surfaced for this composition.
Art Institute of Chicago
4 works surfaced for this composition.
Cleveland Museum of Art
4 works surfaced for this composition.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
4 works surfaced for this composition.
Fogg Museum
3 works surfaced for this composition.
Works with this composition

Diagonal Ridge
Wayne Thiebaud · 1979
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Drypoint, aquatint, and roulette on wove Somerset…

Paisagem n. 114 (MASP)
Lucia Laguna · 2018
MASP · Acrílica e óleo sobre tela

The Subway
José Clemente Orozco · 1928
Museum of Modern Art · Oil on canvas

Circuit
Richard Serra · 1972
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph

Round porcelain inkstone in moon-white glaze (with a jade-inlaid case)
Unknown artist · 明 西元1368-1644年
National Palace Museum · 文具

Pineapple. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)
Diego Rivera · 1927
Museum of Modern Art · Watercolor, pencil, and colored pencil on paper

George Brecht's Drip Music (1962), performed by George Maciunas during Festum Fluxorum/Fluxus/Musik und Antimusik/Das Instrumentale Theater, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, February 2, 1963
George Brecht · 1963
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Amstel River
Piet Mondrian · 1907
Museum of Modern Art · Watercolor and charcoal on paper

La retaguardia
José Clemente Orozco · 1929
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Lithograph

Saint Ildefonso
El Greco · c. 1603/1614
National Gallery of Art · oil on canvas

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758–1836)
Jacques Louis David · 1788
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Oil on canvas

The Basket of Apples
Paul Cezanne · c. 1893
Art Institute of Chicago · Oil on canvas

Bordighera
Claude Monet · 1884
Art Institute of Chicago · Oil on canvas
Blade for a Short Sword ("Kodachi")
Kunimune · Kamakura period, 13th century
Tokyo National Museum · Arms & Armor

Dara Shikoh with Sages
Payag · c. 1635
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

'You' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel in the Form of Two Addorsed Owls
Unknown artist · 14th-11th century BCE
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Cast bronze

Untitled by Red Grooms American,
Red Grooms · 1973
Seattle Art Museum · Screenprint

Fishing Boats at Étretat
Claude Monet · 1885
Seattle Art Museum · Oil on canvas

The Japanese Bridge
Claude Monet · c. 1923–25
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Oil on canvas

South Wind, Clear Weather
Katsushika Hokusai · 1830–33
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on…

Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1820
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Oil on canvas

Portrait of Lucia Wijbrants
Gabriël Metsu · 1667
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Oil on panel

Mount Sainte-Victoire
Paul Cezanne · c. 1904
Cleveland Museum of Art · oil on fabric

Poem by Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, from One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets Explained by an Old Nurse
Katsushika Hokusai · 1835–36
Cleveland Museum of Art · color woodblock print

Man and Woman Admiring Mount Fuji from a Snowy Pavilion
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · Edo period, after 1833
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on…

Cranes on the Seashore/The Reed Shell (Ashigai), from the series "Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets" (Genroku kasen kai-awase)
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · 1821
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, gold, metallic…

Fujieda, Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Fujieda, Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi), detached page from The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō: A Picture Book of Highway Bells (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi: Ehon ekiro no suzu)
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · c. 1808-1813
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Detached page from a woodblock-printed book; ink…

Okazaki, from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 · c. 1806
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Still-life with a Lacquer Panel Inscribed with Poems
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai · Possibly 1804 (Year of the Rat)
Yale University Art Gallery · Polychrome woodblock print with brass and bronze…

Round surimono - couple playing with monkey
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1800
Yale University Art Gallery · Surimono: polychrome woodblock print

Two Spooks Peering from Verandah School of Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono"; ink and color on…

boots
Lafferty, Judy
Canadian Museum of History · moose skin, mammal wool, cotton, fibre, caribou…

Study for Composition (The Cow)
Theo van Doesburg · 1917
Museum of Modern Art · Pencil on paper

Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy
François Boucher · 1740s
Cleveland Museum of Art · oil on canvas

C. - C. = Fisch
Paul Klee · 1931
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Watercolor and ink on gessoed paper, mounted…

Landscape with Figure and Crucifix (Landschaft mit Figuren und Kruzifix), from the suite Sounds (Klänge)
Vassily Kandinsky (also called Vasilij Kandinskij; Wassily Kandinsky) · 1911
Chazen Museum of Art · Color woodcut

Landscape
Vassily Kandinsky (also called Vasilij Kandinskij; Wassily Kandinsky) · designed…
Chazen Museum of Art · Color woodcut

AW:AB=L:MD from Insicuro Noncurante
Alighiero Boetti · 1966-75
Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of eighty two…

Landscape with Two Poplars
Vasily Kandinsky · 1912
Art Institute of Chicago · Oil on canvas

Patriotic propaganda postcard with verse by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Kazimir Malevich · 1914
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph

Odalisque, Enslaved Woman, and Eunuch
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1839-1840
Fogg Museum · Oil on canvas

Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn (The Sun)
John Marin · 1915
Museum of Modern Art · Etching

Chair Series 7 (3107)
Arne Jacobsen · c. 1952
Museum of Modern Art · Chrome-plated steel tubing and molded plywood with…

Male Torso
José Clemente Orozco · (1923)
Museum of Modern Art · Crayon on brown paper

Composition S
Tapio Wirkkala · 1964
Victoria and Albert Museum · stainless steel, forging

Ni mas ni menos
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1797–98
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Etching and aquatint

Poster for Actions/Agit Pop/Dé-Coll/Age Happening/Events/Anti Art/L'Autrisme/Art Total/Refluxus, Auditorium Maximum, Aachen, Germany, July 20, 1964
Nam June Paik · 1964
Museum of Modern Art · Offset lithograph

Drawing, IBA Lützowstrasse Social Housing Competition, Berlin, Germany
Office for Metropolitan Architecture · 1980
M+ Museum · oil on paper

Plate (supplementary suite) from Manifeste Mystique (Mystic Manifesto)
Salvador Dalí · 1951
Museum of Modern Art · Etching from the supplementary suite of an…

Study for Sneaker Lace - White
Claes Oldenburg · 1991
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Color lithograph

Plate (facing page 58) from Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror)
Salvador Dalí · 1934
Museum of Modern Art · One from an illustrated book with forty-two…

Landscape with Noses
Claes Oldenburg · 1975
Walker Art Center · etching, aquatint on paper

Landscape
Thomas Cole · 1825
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Oil on canvas

X-radiograph(s) of "Composition with Blue, Red and Yellow"
Piet Mondrian
Harvard Art Museums · Photographs

Sneaker Lace in Landscape - Red
Claes Oldenburg · 1991
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Color lithograph

Sneaker Lace in Landscape - Gray
Claes Oldenburg · 1991
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Color lithograph

Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods
Édouard Vuillard · 1899
Art Institute of Chicago · Oil on canvas

Fire in the Evening
Paul Klee · 1929
Museum of Modern Art · Oil on cardboard

Seated Figures, Study for "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"
Georges Pierre Seurat · 1884-1885
Fogg Museum · Oil on panel

The Day's Sport
James Ward, 1769–1859 · 1826
Yale Center for British Art · Oil on canvas

Beauty Painting
Suzuki Harunobu · Edo period, 18th century
Tokyo National Museum · Painting

Kilta Tableware
Kaj Franck · 1948
Museum of Modern Art · Glazed earthenware

A radiant female figure beset by dark spirits; page 45 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) · ca. 1812–20
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Brush and point of brush, brown…

Brooklyn Bridge and Lower New York
John Marin · 1913
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Etching and drypoint with plate tone

Paysage a Vallauris
Pablo Picasso · 1953
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Lithograph

Tumbler
Kaj Franck · 1954
Museum of Modern Art · Turn mold-blown glass

Skål og karaffel
Juan Gris · Værkdatering: 1911
Statens Museum for Kunst · Ribbet papir

¡Qual la descañonan!
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes · 1797–98
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Etching and aquatint

Woman in a Kimono
Walter Crane, 1845–1915 · 1910
Yale Center for British Art · Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick,…

1970 from Insicuro Noncurante
Alighiero Boetti · 1966-75
Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of eighty two…

F
Anni Albers · 1969
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Color screenprint in white ink

The Bird Catchers
François Boucher · 1748
J. Paul Getty Museum · Oil on canvas, Oil, Canvas

Bombe ordigni origini e o altro from Insicuro Noncurante
Alighiero Boetti · 1966-75
Museum of Modern Art · One from a portfolio of eighty two…

Portrait of Ambrose Vollard, II
Pablo Picasso · 1937 (printed and published 1939)
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Sugar-lift, with aquatint and spit-bite etching

Suprematist Composition
Ivan Kudriashov · 1921
Museum of Modern Art · Pencil, watercolor, and gouache on paper

Clenched Fist
José Clemente Orozco · (1948)
Museum of Modern Art · Crayon and charcoal on paper

Bindweed
Artist: Fidelia Bridges · 1/1/1873
Yale University Art Gallery · Watercolor

Untitled
Isamu Noguchi · 1946
Museum of Modern Art · Pencil on cut-out-and-pasted graph paper on black…

Lovers Surprised (Annette et Lubin)
François Boucher · early 1760s
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Brown and black chalk, with touches of…

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911)
Vincent van Gogh · 1888–89
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Oil on canvas

Aften i stuen
Vilhelm Hammershøi · Værkdatering: (1904)
Statens Museum for Kunst · Lærred

Winter Landscape with a Coach and Travelers by a House
Jacob Cats · 1786
Fogg Museum · Brown ink, gray wash, and black chalk on cream…

Church Facade 6
Piet Mondrian · 1915, dated 1912
Museum of Modern Art · Charcoal on paper

Gifts for "J."
Paul Klee · 1928
Museum of Modern Art · Oil, ink, and gesso on canvas mounted…

"Genpo yoka" (Collection of Flowering Plants)
Ito Jakuchu · Edo period, dated 1768 (Meiwa 5)
Tokyo National Museum · Ink rubbing of woodblock on paper

George Sand's Garden at Nohant
Eugène Delacroix · ca. 1842–43
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Oil on canvas

Nivea Cream Piece for Oscar Williams, performed during Fluxus/Musik og Anti-Musik/det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, November 23, 1962
Alison Knowles · 1962
Museum of Modern Art · Gelatin silver print

Portræt af Anna Ancher, profil
P.S. Krøyer · Værkdatering: 1898
Statens Museum for Kunst · Koldnålsradering

Portræt af Madame Matisse. Den grønne stribe
Henri Matisse · Værkdatering: (1905)
Statens Museum for Kunst · Lærred

Composition in Brown and Gray
Piet Mondrian · 1913
Museum of Modern Art · Oil on canvas

Front cover from Igra v adu (A Game in Hell)
Kazimir Malevich · 1913–14, published 1914
Museum of Modern Art · Lithograph with lithographed manuscript text from an…

Valley Landscape
John Marin · Værkdatering: 1918
Statens Museum for Kunst · Vandfarve

La Bandera
José Clemente Orozco · 1928
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Lithograph

Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue
Piet Mondrian · 1927
Cleveland Museum of Art · oil on canvas

Le Dedans & Le Dehors
Joan Miró · 1966
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Color etching with aquatint

Reclining Nude II
Henri Matisse · 1927
Minneapolis Institute of Art · Bronze

Metamorphosis
Isamu Noguchi · 1946
Museum of Modern Art · Pencil on cut-out-and-pasted graph paper on black…

Suprematist Composition
Ivan Kudriashov · 1919
Museum of Modern Art · Pencil and watercolor on paper

No title
Eva Hesse · 1965
Museum of Modern Art · Cut-and-pasted paper, ink, colored ink, gouache, and…

Natureza-morta com melancia e cacto
Pablo Picasso · 1948
MASP · Litografia

Haus der Firma Z (Firmaet Zs hus)
Paul Klee · Værkdatering: 1922
Statens Museum for Kunst · Brevpapir

The messenger bird = Le ramier messager : grande valse brillante sur la romance favorite d' Ettienne Arnaud / composée pour le piano par Fr. Burgmüller
Burgmüller · 1800
Princeton Digital PUL · 1 score (9 pages) ; 34 cm

Work Sheet for Sculpture
Isamu Noguchi · 1946
Museum of Modern Art · Pencil on cut-out-and-pasted graph paper on black…

Suprematism
Ivan Kliun · 1916
Museum of Modern Art · Oil on wood

Study for a Composition
Theo van Doesburg · 1923
Museum of Modern Art · Gouache and ink on tissue paper and…

Circular Planes
Giacomo Balla · 1924
Museum of Modern Art · Oil on canvas

Φωτογραφία ανάγλυφης σύνθεσης του Ιβάν Κλιούν
Kliun, Ivan
Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki – MOMus

Painting
Jackson Pollock · c.1944
Museum of Modern Art · Gouache on plywood

Capricho catalan : (extrait de "España")
Albéniz · 1927
Library of Congress · notated music

Tango : extrait de "España"
Albéniz · 1927
Library of Congress · notated music

Fresh flowers : intermezzo
Lincke · 1908
Princeton Digital PUL · Parts (Music)
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[Lithograph in black] by Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946, artist.
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946, artist. · 1924-01-01
Library of Congress · photo, print, drawing