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Wear the Revolution

These aren't reproductions hanging on a wall - they're designs meant to be worn, lived in, and shared. Between 1910 and 1970, these artists changed everything. Braque and Picasso shattered perspective. Kandinsky painted music. Schwitters made art from trash. Picabia drew humans as machines. Delaunay made color dance. Klee turned geometry into poetry. Each work below is available on any garment in our collection - whether you want a bold statement on the front of a hoodie, a full wrap design across a dress, or your own creative vision. Choose your piece of art history, select your garment, and wear something that means something.

Georges Braque , 1882-1963, Parisian artist, Braque was a pioneering French painter, sculptor, and collagist, best known for his foundational role in the development of Cubism. He and Pablo Picasso worked together intensely from 1908 to 1914, creating a revolutionary new style that fragmented objects into geometric shapes and depicted them from multiple perspectives. Braque's unique contributions to Cubism include the invention of papier collé, a type of collage using pasted paper. He also played a key role in the transition from Analytical Cubism (fractured, monochrome compositions) to the more colorful Synthetic Cubism after his service in World War I. His later work, characterized by its serene still lifes and bird motifs, cemented his legacy as a master of modern art.

Georges Braque, Houses at Estaque, 1908

Braque, Path at Estaque, 1908

Braque, Cinq bananes et deux poires, 1908

Braque, La Quarium, 1951

Braque, Figure Double, 1914

Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, Moscow, In his paintings and writings, Kandinsky expressed the belief that painting could be a form of visual music. This musical analogy led the artist to categorize his works as Impressions, Improvisations, or Compositions, depending on the degree of spontaneity or formalization. This Improvisation is built on subtle color harmonies applied with an agility that derives from Kandinsky’s rich experience working in watercolor.

Kandinsky, Black and Violet, 1923

Kandinsky, Upward, 1929

Kandinsky, Improvisation 29, The Swan, 1012

Paul Klee, 1879-1940, German Artist, known for his uniquely abstract and individual style, characterized by the whimsical yet sophisticated use of geometric shapes, vibrant colors, and symbolic elements that blended Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. A talented musician and violinist who also taught at the Bauhaus school, Klee created thousands of works that combined his interests in music, nature, and the human subconscious, producing fantastical and childlike compositions that were deeply meditative and highly influential.

Paul Klee, Cat and Bird, 1928

Paul Klee, Error on Green, 1949

Paul Klee, A young ladies adventure, 1922

Paul Klee, Senecio, 1922

Paul Klee, A strong dream

Paul Klee, Ghost of A Genius, 1922

Klee, Mask of Fear, 1932

Klee, Angelus Novus, 1920

Klee, Der Narr,1927

Francis Picabia, 1879-1953 French artist. was central to the Dada movement when it began to emerge in Paris in the early 1920s, and his work quickly abandoned many of the technical concerns that had animated his previous work. He began to use text in his pictures and collages and to create more explicitly scandalous images attacking conventional notions of morality, religion, and law. While the work was animated by the Dada movement's rage against the European culture that had led to the carnage of World War I, Picabia's attacks often have the sprightly, coarse comedy of the court jester. They reflect an artist with no respect for any conventions, not even art, since art was just another facet of the wider culture he rejected.

Francis Picabia, Aello

Francis Picabia, 1927

Francis Picabia, Lydia, 1929

Francis Picabia, Couples Amoureux, 1922

Picabia, The Globe

Picabia, Madame X, 1927

Kurt Schwitters, 1887-1948, German artist, Schwitters was often known for his liveliness, uninhibited nature and wit – “with his incessant magical gesticulations, he seemed about to break free of the fetters of reason”, as historian of Dada, Hans Richter, observed – but some of his art, especially the Column, with its grottoes dedicated, among other things, to his dead child, hint at a darker side to his personality. No one could give Dada performances like him, though, whether he was barking wildly like a dog on stage or loudly declaiming his sound poems like Ursonate or more naturalistic poems like Anna Blume:

Kurt Schwitters, Glass Flower, 1940

Kurt Schwitters, Widewalls, 1931

Kurt Schwitters, Revolving, 1919

Sonya Delaunay, Market at Minho, 1915

Tristian Tzara, L'Antite, 1949

Juan Gris, The Bullfighter, 1912

Theo Von Doesburg, 1917

Theo Von Doesburg, Abstract Portrait, 1915

Marcel Duchamps, Nude descending, the Staircase, 1912

Picasso, Friendship, 1908

Giorgio de Chirico, Metaphysical interior, 1971

Robert Delauny, Woman with an Umbrella, 1913, The Parisian

Kazmir Malevich, Reservist of the first Division, 1914

Salvador Dali, Big thumb, Beach, Moon, and Decaying Bird,1928

Kazmir Malevich , Woman with Rake, 1930

Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944, Dutch Artist, Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in 1914: "Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man."

Piet Mondrian, Still Life with a gingerpot, 1912

Piet Mondrian, Evening Tree, Red Tree, 1908

Mondrian, Dune Landscape,1909

Piet Mondrian, Grey Tree, 1912