Two world wars, sweeping technological change, and the undoing of traditional academic art.
1900 - 1980
The 20th century saw radical shifts in the way art was made—and it kept on shifting.
1900 - 1980
The 20th century saw radical shifts in the way art was made—and it kept on shifting.
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Fauvism and Expressionism
c. 1905 - 1914
With exuberant color and expressive forms, these two movements broke free of the academic traditions of the 19th century and helped catapult art into the modern era.
Cubism and early abstraction
c. 1907 - 1939
Cubism broke free of the representational strictures of academic art, and revolutionized painting in the process.
Dada and Surrealism
c. 1913 - 1939
Artists in these two movements questioned the nature of art and plumbed the realms of the unconscious and championed the idea of chance.
German art between the wars
1918 - 1939
Culture and art flourished in Weimar Germany, before the rise of the Nazis brought the period to a violent end.
Latin American modernism
c. 1920 - 1970
In Latin America, modernism took on socially- and politically-oriented forms.
American art to World War II
c. 1890 - 1939
American artists found new ways of representing a society that was rapidly changing.
Postwar American art
1945 - 1980
New York became the center of the art world after World War II. From Abstract Expressionism to Conceptual Art and beyond, artists in the United States led a wave of rapidly shifting styles and approaches in the mid-20th century.
Postwar European art
1945 - 1980
In Europe, artists continued to forge their own ways, while also responding to trends across the Atlantic.
Conceptual and Performance art
c. 1960 - present
These two radical art practices grew out of early 20th century movements, but took on a new potency beginning in the tumultuous 1960s.
Post-Minimalism
c. 1965 - 1980
Artists used the new formal approaches developed by Minimalist and Conceptual artists and used them to interrogate the body and its social construction.
Global vanguards
1945 - present
Artists across the globe have pushed the boundaries of artmaking in the 20th century.
Architecture and design
1900 - 1980
20th-century architecture made use of new materials and styles to create urban environments unlike any that had come before.
APAH 250 Images:
126. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso
130. The Portuguese, Georges Braque
131. The Goldfish, Henri Matisse
122. The Scream, Edvard Munch
128. The Kiss, Gustav Klimt
129. The Kiss, Constantin Brancusi
Expressionism
131. The Goldfish, Henri Matisse
133. Self-Portrait as a Soldier, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
132. Improvisation 28 (second version), Vasily Kandinsky
134. Memorial Sheet of Karl Liebknecht, Käthe Kollwitz
Cubism
126. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso
130. The Portuguese, Georges Braque
* Leger, Delauney, Davis
Dada
144. Fountain, Marcel Duchamp
De Stijl
136. Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, Piet Mondrian
Surrealism
138. Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), Meret Oppenheim
140. The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo
Modern Intersections
140. The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo
141. The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49, Jacob Lawrence
142. The Jungle, Wilfredo Lam
143. Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park, Diego Rivera
Modern Architecture
124. Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, Louis Sullivan
135. Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier
139. Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright
146. Seagram Building, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson
American Post WWII Modern Art Movements
Abstract Expressionism
149. The Bay, Helen Frankenthaler
145. Woman I, Willem de Kooning
* Jackson Pollock
Pop Art
147. Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol
150. Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Claes Oldenburg
Earth Art
151. Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson
137. Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan, Varvara Stepanova
Installation Art
224. The Gates, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
148. Narcissus garden, Yayoi Kusama
130. The Portuguese, Georges Braque
131. The Goldfish, Henri Matisse
122. The Scream, Edvard Munch
128. The Kiss, Gustav Klimt
129. The Kiss, Constantin Brancusi
Expressionism
131. The Goldfish, Henri Matisse
133. Self-Portrait as a Soldier, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
132. Improvisation 28 (second version), Vasily Kandinsky
134. Memorial Sheet of Karl Liebknecht, Käthe Kollwitz
Cubism
126. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso
130. The Portuguese, Georges Braque
* Leger, Delauney, Davis
Dada
144. Fountain, Marcel Duchamp
De Stijl
136. Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, Piet Mondrian
Surrealism
138. Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), Meret Oppenheim
140. The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo
Modern Intersections
140. The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo
141. The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49, Jacob Lawrence
142. The Jungle, Wilfredo Lam
143. Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park, Diego Rivera
Modern Architecture
124. Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, Louis Sullivan
135. Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier
139. Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright
146. Seagram Building, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson
American Post WWII Modern Art Movements
Abstract Expressionism
149. The Bay, Helen Frankenthaler
145. Woman I, Willem de Kooning
* Jackson Pollock
Pop Art
147. Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol
150. Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Claes Oldenburg
Earth Art
151. Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson
137. Illustration from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan, Varvara Stepanova
Installation Art
224. The Gates, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
148. Narcissus garden, Yayoi Kusama