- Write an essay which analyzes two primary documents as examples of one of the major themes of the 20s (domestic conflict, culture of excess, reactions to WWI, Harlem Renaissance, etc.)
- Choose The Great Gatsby , a Hughes poem, or “The Hollow Men”
- Choose one school of art and at least one exemplary piece
- Choose a third primary document (film, art, lit., music, etc.)

Claude Monet – Impressionism, Sunset - 1872

Pierre-Auguste Renoir – The Swing – 1876

Edgar Degas – At The Races – 1877-1880

Mary Cassatt – Summertime – 1884

- Visible brushstrokes
- Emphasis on light and its changing qualities
- Ordinary subject matter
- The inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience
- Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Mary
Cassatt, etc.

Georges Braque – Woman With A Guitar – 1913

Pablo Picasso – Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – 1907

Robert Delaunay – Champs de Mars. La Tour rouge – 1911

- Objects are broken up, analyzed, and then re-assembled
- The subject is presented from multiple viewpoints to add context
- Surfaces intersect at random angles
- The background and objects intersect creating ambiguity
- Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, etc.

Henri Matisse – Woman With A Hat – 1905

Andre Derain – The Turning Road – 1906

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Marzella – 1909-1910

Emphasis on “painterly” qualities
(visible strokes, no blending, etc.)
- Strong color rather than representational impressionism
- Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, etc.

Santiago Martinez Delgado – Mural For The Chicago International Fair – 1933

Walter Dorwin Teague – Kodak Beau Brownie – 1933

Albert Anis – The Abbey Hotel – 1940

Rene Paul Chambellan – Chanin Building Gates – 1929

Tamara de Lempicka – Portrait of Madame Boucard – 1931

- Apolitical and aphilosophical – purely decorative
- Mostly known as an architectural movement
- Elegant
- Functional
- Ultra-modern
- Santiago Martinez Delgado, Walter Dorwin Teague, Albert Anis,
Rene Paul Chambellan, Tamara de Lempicka etc.

Aaron Douglas – Aspiration – 1936

Romare Bearden – One Night Stand – 1974

Jacob Lawrence – The Migration Series:
The female worker was one of the last groups to leave the south
– 1940-41

- Unmixed colors
- Focus on shapes and patterns
- Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, etc.

Jean Arp – Collage Arranged According To The Laws Of Chance – 1916-17

Marcel Duchamp – Fountain – 1917

Hannah Hoch – The Pretty Maiden – 1920

Kurt Schwitters – The Psychiatrist – 1919

- Anti-war movement
- Rejected the standards of contemporary art
- Ridiculed cultural and social standards of the day
- Predecessor to abstract art
- Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitters, etc.

Joan Miro – The Music-Hall Usher – 1925

Salvador Dali – Eggs On The Plate Without The Plate – 1932

Giorgio de Chirico – The Disquieting Muses – 1916

Rene Magritte – The Treachery Of Images – 1928-1929

Meret Oppenheim – Object (Le Dejeuner en fourrure) – 1936

- Relies on surprise, juxtapositions, and non sequitors
- Hoped to revolutionize the human experience by freeing people from what the artists saw as false rationality
- Seeks to remove reason from thought
- Surrealism is actually a mistranslation from the French which would more correctly read “Superrealism”
- Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte,
Meret Oppenheim, etc.