The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 128 - 129 Flashcards
The Twentieth Century: Modern Art
- 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
Guimard designs Art Nouveau ironwork
- 1900
Stieglitz promotes photography as fine art
- 1902
First Fauve exhibit; Die Brucke founded; Stieglitz opens 291 Gallery
- 1905
Brancusi carves first abstract sculpture
- 1907
Picasso and Baroque found Cubism
- 1908
Ash Can painters introduce realism
- 1908-13
Austrian Expressionists active
- 1909
Kandinsky paints first abstract canvas; Futurists issue Manifesto
- 1910
Der Blaue Reiter formed
- 1911
Armory Show shakes up American art
- 1913
Dada begins
- 1916
De Stijl founded
- 1917
Bauhaus formed
- 1918
Mexican muralists active
- 1920s
Soviets suppress Constructivism
- 1920
Surrealists issue Manifesto
- 1924
U.S. Precisionists active
- 1927
Le Corbusier designs Villa Savoyne
- 1929
American Scene painters popular; Social Realists paint political art
- 1930s
International Style architecture popular
- 1933
New Deal employs artists
- 1936
Hopper paints “Nighthawks”
- 1942
Dubuffett coins term “L’art Brut”
- 1945
Mies van der Rohe streamlines architecture
- 1948
Abstract Expressionism recognized
- 1950
Harold Rosenberg coins term “Action Painting”; Frankenthaler invents stain painting
- 1952
Calder makes “mobiles”
- 1954
Rauschenberg creates “Bed” combine
- 1955
Wright builds Guggenheim
- 1956
Bourgeois creates abstract “totem sculptures”
- 1959
