The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 128 - 129

Question 1

The Twentieth Century: Modern Art

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

Guimard designs Art Nouveau ironwork

Answer 2

• 1900

Question 3

Stieglitz promotes photography as fine art

Answer 3

• 1902

Question 4

First Fauve exhibit; Die Brucke founded; Stieglitz opens 291 Gallery

Answer 4

• 1905

Question 5

Brancusi carves first abstract sculpture

Answer 5

• 1907

Question 6

Picasso and Baroque found Cubism

Answer 6

• 1908

Question 7

Ash Can painters introduce realism

Answer 7

• 1908-13

Question 8

Austrian Expressionists active

Answer 8

• 1909

Question 9

Kandinsky paints first abstract canvas; Futurists issue Manifesto

Answer 9

• 1910

Question 10

Der Blaue Reiter formed

Answer 10

• 1911

Question 11

Armory Show shakes up American art

Answer 11

• 1913

Question 12

Dada begins

Answer 12

• 1916

Question 13

De Stijl founded

Answer 13

• 1917

Question 14

Bauhaus formed

Answer 14

• 1918

Question 15

Mexican muralists active

Answer 15

• 1920s

Question 16

Soviets suppress Constructivism

Answer 16

• 1920

Question 17

Surrealists issue Manifesto

Answer 17

• 1924

Question 18

U.S. Precisionists active

Answer 18

• 1927

Question 19

Le Corbusier designs Villa Savoyne

Answer 19

• 1929

Question 20

American Scene painters popular; Social Realists paint political art

Answer 20

• 1930s

Question 21

International Style architecture popular

Answer 21

• 1933

Question 22

New Deal employs artists

Answer 22

• 1936

Question 23

Hopper paints “Nighthawks”

Answer 23

• 1942

Question 24

Dubuffett coins term “L’art Brut”

Answer 24

• 1945

Question 25

Mies van der Rohe streamlines architecture

Answer 25

• 1948

Question 26

Abstract Expressionism recognized

Answer 26

• 1950

Question 27

Harold Rosenberg coins term “Action Painting”; Frankenthaler invents stain painting

Answer 27

• 1952

Question 28

Calder makes “mobiles”

Answer 28

• 1954

Question 29

Rauschenberg creates “Bed” combine

Answer 29

• 1955

Question 30

Wright builds Guggenheim

Answer 30

• 1956

Question 31

Bourgeois creates abstract “totem sculptures”

Answer 31

• 1959