V. Disaster Seminar in Art History: Twentieth Century Art Depression Declaration

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, Spain, 1937

Robert Capa, Death of a Loyalist, 1936

Mexican Muralism Diego Rivera, 1921 returns to Mexico from France Response to Mexican Revolution that had recently ended (begun in 1910) Rivera ends his cubist period and becomes influenced by Italian Fresco painting

Diego Rivera, Maternity, 1916

Diego Rivera, Creation, Bolivar Amphitheater, National Preparatory School, Mexico City,

Subterranean Forces, Universidad Autonoma de Chapingo Chapel, Chapingo, Mexico, 1926

Rivera, Blood of the Martyrs Fertilizing the Earth, Universidad Autonoma de Chapingo Chapel, Chapingo, Mexico, 1926

Rivera, The Flower Carrier, Mexico, 1925

Jean- François Millet, The Sower, France, Realism, 1850

Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners, France, Realism, 18507

Rivera, The History of Mexico, National Palace, Mexico City,

Vera Mukhina, Worker and Collective Farm Woman, Moscow, 1936

John Heartfield, Swallows Gold and Utters Base Metal, Germany, 1932

Degenerate Art Exhibition, Munich, 1936

Arno Breker, Army, New Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1938

Marc Chagall, White Crucifixion, Russian, 1938

American Regionalism Social Realism Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, Edward Hopper, Balthus 1930s-50s Reaction to Modernism of Europe and New York Influenced by Mexican Muralism Regionalism reveals conservative Midwestern values Social Realism depicts urban reality

Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936

Margaret Bourke-White, At the Time of the Louisville Flood, 1937

Grant Wood, American Gothic, American, 1930

Edward Hopper, Automat, American, 1927

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, American, 1930

Edward Hopper, Room in New York, American, 1932

Edward Hopper, Hotel Room, American, 1934

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, American, 1942

Thomas Hart Benton, Going West, American,

Thomas Hart Benton, Arts of the West, American,

Henry Moore Recumbent Figure, 1938

Barbara Hepworth Three Forms, 1935

Surrealism France: André Breton, René Magritte, Max Ernst Spain: Juan Miró, Salvador Dalí s Result of the move of many Dada artists to Paris after WWI; influenced by Dada’s rejection of logic. Influenced by Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, 1900, and an interest in understanding human behavior; depicts fascination with the occult.

Max Ernst, The Elephant of Celebes, German, 1921

Max Ernst, Two Children Threatened by a Nightengale, German, 1924

René Magritte, The Murderer Threatened, Belgium, 1927

René Magritte, Le Viol, Belgium, 1934

René Magritte, Time Transfixed, Belgium, 1938

René Magritte, The Treason of Images, Belgium, 1948

Juan Miró, Birth of the World, Spain, 1925

Juan Miró, Dutch Interior I, Spain, 1928

Salvador Dalí, Figure at a Window, Spain, 1925

Salvador Dalí, Persistence of Memory, Spain, 1925