Early and Mid 20th c. Art - Modernism
There is no must in art because art is free. Wassily Kandinsky
Key Ideas
Movements, Dates, and Major Artists
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History
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Additional ResourcesArtists and Movements Review
* SmartHistory through Khan Academy * World Wide Arts Resources, has information on most movements that we've covered, including medieval. Check this site out and click on a movement for this chapter on the left side in blue * What's going on in the world politically during the early 20th century - World History Chronology, World War I. * Collection of images on F.L. Wright's Fallingwater architecture * Article from Huffington Post about Benton's work and influence in America * Have Instant Netflix? Watch The Rape of Europa and learn about Hitler's and the Nazi's involvement in the thievery of the world's most significant Artworks * YouTube video: Kirchner's Street, Dresden * YouTube video: Picasso's Guernica * YouTube video: Salvador Dali: Destino * YouTube video: Gelatin Silver Print ADDITIONAL READINGS: -African Influences in Modern Art -Heilbrunn Timeline Thematic Essay: Cubism -Bauhaus school in Germany -CALDER |
Vocabularyabstract
action painting assemblage biomorphism cantilever collage color field painting documentary photography earthwork ferroconcrete frottage Happening Harlem Renaissance installation mobile ready-made silkscreen |
Artwork ListGoldfish
Kandinsky's Untitled Kirchner's Self Portrait as a Soldier Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht Les Demoiselles Guernica The Portuguese Brancusi's The Kiss The Steerage Fountain The Persistence of Memory Object The Two Fridas The Jungle The Results of the First Five-Year Plan Composition with Red, Blue, Yellow Kaufmann House Villa Savoye The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49 Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park |