The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 128 - 129 Flashcards
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The Twentieth Century: Modern Art
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- in the twentieth century, art was aggressively convulsive, with styles replacing each other
- it took to an extreme what Courbet and Manet began in the nineteenth century - portraying contemporary life rather than historical events
- artists were released form the need to please a patron so they stressed private concerns, experiences, and imagination as the sole source of art
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Guimard designs Art Nouveau ironwork
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- 1900
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Stieglitz promotes photography as fine art
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- 1902
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First Fauve exhibit; Die Brucke founded; Stieglitz opens 291 Gallery
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- 1905
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Brancusi carves first abstract sculpture
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- 1907
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Picasso and Baroque found Cubism
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- 1908
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Ash Can painters introduce realism
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- 1908-13
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Austrian Expressionists active
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- 1909
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Kandinsky paints first abstract canvas; Futurists issue Manifesto
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- 1910
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Der Blaue Reiter formed
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- 1911
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Armory Show shakes up American art
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- 1913
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Dada begins
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- 1916
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De Stijl founded
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- 1917
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Bauhaus formed
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- 1918
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Mexican muralists active
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- 1920s
