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A Culture in Conflict 1919-1939
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Physics Marie and Pierre Curie begin experimenting with radioactivity
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Science Einstein advances his theory of relativity
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Psychology Freud pioneers psychoanalysis (lying on the couch) and develops theories about unconscious and subconscious
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Art Movements Fauvist Movement, 1905-1908 Cubist Movement, 1900s-1930s Dada Movement, 1916-1922 Surrealist Movement, 1920s- 1960s Social Commentary Movement, 1900s-1950s Bauhaus/International Style, 1920s-1930s
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Fauvism
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Cubism Shows artist’s conception of a new world with own system of order reduces nature to basic shapes
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Georges Braque Considered by some art historians to precede Picasso in coining term and movement focuses on simultaneous views of object
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Picasso Most famous cubist artist has Blue Period & Rose Period influenced by African tribal art synthetic and analytic cubism
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Dada Short movement focuses on machine- produced utilitarian articles as art Bauhaus Movement grows out of this, as well as modern art
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Marcel Duchamp
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Hans Arp
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Max Ernst
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Abstract Art Paul Klee
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Vasily Kandinsky
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Surrealism Mocks the rationalist views of Western Civilization focuses on dreams and irrational thoughts Movement is still in evidence today
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Surrealism Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory, 1931
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Rene Magritte Considered first surrealist attempted to show dream experiences in which recognizable forms appear in surprising combinations
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Joan Miro surrealist borders on modern art due to lack of common ground with viewer also produced ceramic works
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Miro’s Works
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Social Commentary Movement Points out injustices through artwork Examples of Spanish Civil War, World War I, and Latin American problems
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Picasso’s Guernica 1937
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Kathe Kollwitz
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Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright – function should determine form
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The Guggenheim
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Hollyhock House
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Marin County Civic Center
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Weltzheimer House
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Bauhaus Follows Dada Movement in art Focuses on idea of “art follows function” No need for ornamentation lays groundwork for Modern Architecture Movement
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Literature “Loss of faith” writers: T.S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway Stream of consciousness writers: James Joyce and Virginia Woolf
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Radio The new invention of the radio creates mass culture
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Jazz Pioneered by African Americans, combines Western harmonies with African rhythms
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Women and Society Flappers shocked their elders Some progress was made: suffrage, higher education, more acceptance into new fields such as science and art
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