Modern Art Modern Art or Modernism is the loose term given to the succession of styles and movements in art and architecture which dominated Western culture from 19th Century up until the 1960’s. Movements associated with Modern art include Impressionism, Cubism, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Futurism, Pop Art and Op Art.  Modern Art rejects the past as a model for the art of the present and is characterized by constant innovation. Modern Art grew out of the Impressionist's rejection of the 'imitation of life' school of art. Their emphasis on the act of painting, on the paint itself, can be seen in the Expressionist and Cubist art of the turn-of-the-century.  Modern art was also often driven by various social and political agendas. These were often utopian, and modernism was in general associated with ideal visions of human life and society and a belief in progress. From the 1970’s artists and movements began to react against Modernism and post-modernism was formed.

Odilon Redon, The Cyclops c. 1914 Symbolism

Art Nouveau Tree of Life 1905-1909 Gustav Klimt The Eyes of Herod Aubrey Beardsley From Salome 1894 Alphonse Marie Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939), Job, 1898,

Analytic Cubism Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Wilhelm Uhde (1910) Georges Braque, The Clarinet, 1912

Synthetic Cubism Woman and Child, painted in 1921 by French Cubist Fernand Léger, has gone missing from Wellesley College. (Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College/Associated Press) Houses In Paris Juan Gris Picasso, Girl before a Mirror, 1932

Fauvism André Derain, London Bridge, 1906 Henri Matisse, Green Stripe (Madame Matisse), 1905 Le Pont de Chatou, 1906 Maurice de Vlaminck

Expressionism Edvard Munch The Scream 1893 Egon Schiele Self Portrait 1912

Die Brücke - or The Bridge Ernst Kirchner Berlin Street Scene, 1913                            Emil Nolde, Der Prophet, woodcut (1912)

Der Blaue Reiter – “ The Blue Rider” Wasilly Kandinsky, Franz Marc Blue Horse I  Paul Klee. Senecio. 1922 Der Blaue Reiter – “ The Blue Rider” Wassily Kandinsky. Several Circles. 1926

Futurism Giacomo Balla Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash 1912 Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space,1913

Orphism Robert Delaunay La Tour Eiffel, 1926 Sonia Delaunay, Prismes électriques, 1914

Dada Man Ray, Indestructible Object, 1923 Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1913 Max Ernst, The Hat Makes the Man, 1920

De Stijl Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie. 1942-43 Piet Mondrian, Color Planes in Oval, 1913-14

more Expressionism Amedeo Modigliani. Landscape. 1919 Amedeo Modigliani. Gypsy Woman with Child. 1919.

German Expressionism Otto Dix, Skull from the portfolio War, 1924 George Grosz, A Married Couple, 1930 Max Beckmann, Carnival (Fastnacht), 1920

Figurative Paintings Henri Matisse The Dance 2 1910 “Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.” Read more: http://www.arttherapyblog.com/art-quotes/pierre-bonnard-quote-info/#ixzz0omuoaIwS

American Modernism Stuart Davis, Report From Rockport, 1940 Marsden Hartley, Number 5, 1914-15 Georgia O’Keeffe, Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills 1935 Arthur Dove, Sunrise 1936

Constructivism Kasimir Malevich Suprematism 1916-17 Naum Gabo (worked in Germany, England, and USA, born Russia, 1890-1977), Head of a Woman, c. 1917-20

Surrealism Marc Chagall Birthday 1915 Joan Miró, Women and Bird in the Moonlight, 1949 Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989; active in Paris and New York), Lugubrious Game, 1929, Rene Magritte, Gonconda, 1953

Bauhaus White line square XII 1966 Kandinsky Composition #7, 1913

Sculpture Alexander Calder Mobile Alberto Giacometti, Man Striding Henry Moore at the New York Botanical Gardens

Sculpture after WWII Isamu Noguchi, Black Sun David Smith “Cubi VII” Louise Nevelson, Royal Tide I, 1960 Tony Smith, She Who Must Be Obeyed, 1975,

Abstract Expressionism Willem de Kooning, Women Singing II, 1966 Hans Hofmann, Pompeii, 1959

more Abstract Expressionism Lee Krasner, Gothic Landscape, 1961 more Abstract Expressionism Ad Reinhardt (American, 1913-1967), Untitled, 1940

and more Abstract Expressionism Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (#30), 1950 Franz Kline, Untitled, c. 1959 and more Abstract Expressionism Clyfford Still 1947-J, 1947 68 x 62 inches

Color Field Painting Morris Louis, Alpha-Phi, 1961 Kenneth Noland Gift, 1961-2 Helen Frankenthaler, "The Bay" (1963); acrylic on canvas

Hard Edge Painting Ellsworth KELLY Orange curve Kenneth Noland (American, 1924-), Shoot, 1964 Frank Stella Squared Sinjerili Variations Squared with Colored Ground IV (A. 134), 1981

Earth Art Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973), Spiral Jetty Christo, Surrounded Islands

Minimalism Richard Serra Switch 2000 Donald Judd Untitled, 1967 Stainless steel and Plexiglas Ten units, each 9 1/8 x 40 x 31 inches

Op Art Maurits Cornelis Escher, Convex and Concave, 1955 Bridget Riley, Cataract Victor Vasarely, Blue / Red, 1983, silkscreen

Photorealism Richard Estes, Telephone Booths 1967 Duane Hanson, Salesman, 1992, painted polyvinyl, Chuck Close, Mark

Pop Art Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam!, 1963 Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), Campbell's Tomato Soup, 1962, Jasper John Three Flags 1953