Impressionism
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Impression, sunrise, 1873 Oil on canvas, 48 x 63 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
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Realism
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
Stone-Breakers, 1949 Oil on canvas, 160 x 280 cm (destroyed in the British bombing of Dresden in 1945) |
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ExpressionismEdward Munch (1863-1944)
The Scream, 1893 Oil, tempera and pastel on wood, 91 x 73,5 cm Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo |
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Cubism
Pablo Picasso (1981-1973)
Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912 Mixed media on panel, 29 x 37 cm Musée National Picasso, Paris |
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World War I
European avant-garde movements found the actualization of their futuristic visions in the nightmarish scenario of WWI. Dead bodies, muddy trenches, barbed wires and waste land took most of the artists literally down to earth. Reality took over abstraction.
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Abstract Art
Vassily Kandinsky
Untitled, 1910 Watercolor on paper, 188 x 196 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
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Modernism
Le Corbusier
Ville Savoye Poissy (Paris) |
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Objects in 20th Century Art
Marcel Duchamp
Fountain (photographed by Alfred Stieglitz), 1917 ready made object |
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