Early 20th Century: Modernism I
Fauvism
• Henri Matisse, French
o Goldfish. Henri Matisse. 1912 C.E. Oil on canvas.
o The Odalisque with Red Culottes
o Icarus
Cubism
• Braque, French
o The Portuguese. Georges 1911 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish
• Boy with Pipe
• Guernica
• Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Pablo Picasso. 1907 C.E. Oil on canvas
Futurism
• Umberto Boccioni, Italian
o Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
• Gino Severini, Italian
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Armored Train in Action
Russia
Varvana Stepanova, Russian
• Illustration from The Results of the First Five Year Plan, photomontage, 1932 C.E.
Modernism II
Independent German Expressionists
Max Beckman, German
o Departure
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German Expressionism
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Ernst Kirchner, German
o Self-Portrait as a Soldier. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. 1915 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Kathe Kollwitz, German
o Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht. 1919–1920 C.E
Wassily Kandinsky, Russian working in Germany
o Improvisation 28 (2nd version). Vassily Kandinsky. 1912 C.E. Oil on canvas.
Expressionists Outside of Germany
De Stijl
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Piet Mondrian, Dutch working in Paris
o Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow. Piet Mondrian. 1930 C.E. Oil Composition in Red,
Blue and Yellow, 1930
Art Between the Wars
Dada
Marcel Duchamp, French
o Fountain (second version). Marcel Duchamp. 1950 C.E. (original 1917). Readymade
glazed sanitary china with black paint.
Brancusi, Swiss
The Kiss. 1907–1908 C.E. Limestone.
Surrealism
• Giorgio de Chirico, Italian
o Mystery and Melancholy of the Street
• Salvador Dali, Spanish
o The Persistence of Memory
• Rene Magritte , French
o The Empire of Lights
• Meret Oppenheim, Swiss
o Fur Cup Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure. 1936 C.E. Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon.
Early 20th C. American and Latin American Modernism
Marsden Hartley, American
o Portrait of a German Officer
Charles Demuth, American
o The Figure 5 in Gold
Georgia O’Keefe, American
o Radiator Building
Ash Can School
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John Sloan, American
o Pigeons
o McSorley’s Bar
George Bellows, American
o Stag at Sharkey’s
o Tennis at Newport
American Realism
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Edward Hopper, American
o Early Sunday Morning
o Chop Suey
o Nighthawks
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Charles Sheeler, American
o American Landscape
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Grant Wood, American
o American Gothic
Social Realism
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Ben Shahn, American
o Sacco and Vanzetti
Diego Rivera, Mexican
o Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park. Diego Rivera. 1947–1948 C.E. Fresco.
Frida Kahlo, Mexican
o The Two Fridas. 1939 C.E. Oil on canvas
Harlem Renaissance
Aaron Douglas, American
• Into Bondage
• Jacob Lawrence, American
o The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49. 1940–1941 C.E. Casein tempera on hardboard
Cuba
Wifredo Lam, Cuban
o The Jungle.. 1943 C.E. Gouache on paper mounted on canvas.
Abstraction
o Stuart Davis, American
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