1. AP EURO Unit #6 – Early 20th Century (The World Wars) Modern Art
of the 20th Century
PPT 606

2. Abstract Art (1907 - onwards)
a blend of Realism and Symbolism
Something has been withdrawn
Plays with visual elements
GEORGES BRAQUE
Violin and Pitcher, 1910
(oil on canvas)

3. Art Nouveau August Klimt The Kiss, 1908 “New Art” decorative
1890 until WW I
linear designs
flowing curves
natural forms.
August Klimt The Kiss, 1908

4. Expressionism (1905-1925) German off shoot from Fauvism
Charged with emotional vision of the world
ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER
The Red Tower at Halle, 1915
(oil on canvas)

5. Marc Chagall pioneer of modernism and a major Jewish artist.
synthesized cubism and fauvism

6. Cubism (1907-1915) Pablo Picasso and George Braque Paris
Ignored traditions of perspective
many views of subject at one time
inspiration from art from Africa
Breaks subject into geometric
shapes, then overlaps
Pablo Picasso
Ambroise Vollard, 1915
(oil on canvas)

7. Les Demoiselle d’Avignon
Pablo Picasso,
1907

8. Guernica – Pablo Picasso, 1937

9. Dadaism (1916-1922) was a form of artistic anarchy
born out of disgust for WWI
destroy artistic values
intentionally confrontational
Purposefully provoked
outrageous actions at their exhibitions

10. Surrealism (1924-1939) Goal: liberate artists imagination
“superior reality”
Drew on images of dreams
Often combined disassociated images
RENÉ MAGRITTE
Time Transfixed, 1938
(oil on canvas)
Salvador Dali

11. Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali, 1931

12. Functionalism Bauhaus School
Buildings should have a purpose
Characterized by clean, straight lines
Symmetrical
Bauhaus School