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
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Soviets suppress Constructivism

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Surrealists issue Manifesto

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U.S. Precisionists active

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Le Corbusier designs Villa Savoyne

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American Scene painters popular; Social Realists paint political art

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International Style architecture popular

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New Deal employs artists

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Hopper paints “Nighthawks”

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Dubuffett coins term “L’art Brut”

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Mies van der Rohe streamlines architecture
- 1948
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Abstract Expressionism recognized
- 1950
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Harold Rosenberg coins term "Action Painting"; Frankenthaler invents stain painting
- 1952
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Calder makes "mobiles"
- 1954
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Rauschenberg creates "Bed" combine
- 1955
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Wright builds Guggenheim
- 1956
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Bourgeois creates abstract "totem sculptures"
- 1959