1920s ART IN THE victoria anderson michael hagberg joseph gruenthal period seven-eight
IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS Surrealism Der Blaue Reiter Art Deco American- Expressionism Precisionism Constructivism
“NO RULES EXIST, AND EXAMPLES ARE SIMPLY LIFE-SAVERS ANSWERING THE APPEALS OF RULES MAKING VAIN ATTEMPTS TO EXIST.” —Andre Breton
“Several Circles” (1926) by Wassily Kandinsky
“Dream City” (1921) by Paul Klee
“Girl at a Sewing Machine” (1921) by Edward Hopper
“Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue” (1921) by Piet Mondrian
“He Did What He Wanted” (1927) by Yves Tanguy
“Aucassin and Nicolette” (1921) by Charles Demuth
“Yellow Calla” (1926) by Georgia O’Keefe
“Songs of the Sky No. 2” (1923) by Alfred Stieglitz
“Blues” (1929) by Archibald J. Motley
“Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive the principles of art of past centuries can lead only to the production of stillborn works” Wassily Kandinsky—