1. TWENTIETH CENTURY ART BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS

2. Dada Key Characteristics
Absurdity-life doesn't make sense, so why should art?
Chance-life is random
Irreverence-challenge cherished beliefs and institutions
Key Techniques
Ready-made-sculpture from existing manufactured parts
Photomontage-collection of photographs

3. Surrealism Key Characteristics
Depicts the world of the unconscious mind; dreams
Influenced by Bosch, Gauguin and Symbolists
Odd juxtaposition of recognizable objects
Exaggeration in the appearance of objects
Unusual objects and symbols that express the artist's inner mind and question reality

4. Key Artists

5. GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, 1914
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, Oil on canvas
Giorgio de Chirico--proto-Surrealist; eerie scenes

6. GIORGIO DE CHIRICO The Song of Love, 1914

7. SALVADOR DALÍ, The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Oil on canvas,
Dali-Realistic figures, idiosyncratic symbols

8. RENÉ MAGRITTE, The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images, 1928-1929
RENÉ MAGRITTE, The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images, Oil on canvas
Magritte-unusual combinations of recognizable objects

9. JOAN MIRÓ, The Potato, 1928 Oil on canvas
Miro-used biomorphic shapes

10. MARC CHAGALL, I and the Village, 1911
Chagall-drew upon childhood experiences in Russia

11. FRIDA KAHLO, The Two Fridas, 1939. Oil on canvas
Frida Kahlo--series of biographical self-portraits; wife of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera

12. CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI, Bird in Space, 1928. Bronze
Abstract work intended to capture subject's essence
Bird in Space is most famous work

13. BARBARA HEPWORTH, Oval Sculpture (No. 2), 1943. Plaster cast
Modernist English sculptor
Major innovator in use of negative space

14. HENRY MOORE, Reclining Figure, 1939. Elm wood
• Major use of organic curves and negative space
Abstract recumbent female figures
Works have monumental quality

15. Alexander Calder Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, 1939
Mobiles-moving sculptures suspended from ceiling
Simplified organic forms
Similar to Miro's biomorphic paintings