HENRI MATISSE

Woman with the Hat

1905

Oil on canvas

Fauvism

Colors used to produce reaction from the viewer

HENRI MATISSE

Red Room (Harmony in Red)

Oil on canvas

Fauvism

ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER

Street, Dresden

Oil on canvas

German Expressionism

Influenced by Munch/Fauves

VASSILY KANDINSKY

Improvisation 28 (second version)

Oil on canvas

German Expressionism

Einstein/Rutherford convinced Kandinsky that material objects had no real substance.

PABLO PICASSO

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Oil on canvas

Primitivism/Cubism

Influenced by Iberian sculpture/late paintings of Cezanne

GEORGES BRAQUE

The Portuguese

O on C

Cubism

Disected form and placed it in dynamic interaction with space.

ROBERT DELAUNAY

Champs de Mars (The Red Tower)

Orphism -> color Cubism. Commentary on collapse of society.

PABLO PICASSO

Still Life with Chair-Caning

O on C

Cubism

Challenges viewer's understanding on reality.

ALEKSANDR ARCHIPENKO

Woman Combing Her Hair

Bronze

Cubism

FERNAND LEGER

The City

O on C

Cubism

Mechanical commotion of urban life

UMBERTO BOCCIONI

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Bronze

Futurism

JEAN HANS ARP

Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance

Torn and pasted paper

Dada

MARCEL DUCHAMP

Fountain

Readymade glazed sanitary china with black paint

Data

mass-produced objects that Dada artist modified

HANNAH HOCH

Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada throgh the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany

Dada

Photomontage

Progress of women, fellow Dadaists next to Marx/Lenin

CHARLES DEMUTH

My Egypt

O on composition board

Precisionism - American artists who extolled (praised) machine age

GEORGIA O'KEEFE

New York, Night

O on C

Precisionism

Georgia O'Keefe

Jack in the Pulpit IV

1930

GEORGE GROSZ

Fit for Active Service

Pen and brush and ink on paper

Neue Sachlichkeit

PABLO PICASSO
Guernica

O on C

Cubist techniques. Nazi bombing of Basque capital. 

MAX BECKMANN

Night

O on C

Neue Sachlichkeit

MAX ERNST

Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale

Oil on wood with wood consruction

Surrealist

Salvador Dalí

The Persistence of Memory

O on C

Surrealism

Images of concrete irrationality

RENÉ MARGRITTE

The Treachery of Images

O on C

Challenges viewer's reliance on the conscious and the rational in the reading of visual art.

MERET OPPENHEIM

Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure)

Fur covered cup

Surrealism

JOAN MIRÓ

Painting 1933

O on C

Surrealism

Automatism - creation of art without conscious control.

PIET MONDRIAN

COmposition with Red, Blue and Yellow

O on C

Dynamic tension created by altering grid patterns

JOSEF ALBERS

Homage to the Square: Ascending

Oil on composition board

BARBARA HEPWORTH

Oval Sculpture No. 2

Plaster cast

Negative space as an abstract element that is as integral as mass.

ALEXANDER CALDER

Lobster Trap and Fish Tail

Painted sheet aluminum and steel wire

Mobile - expressed rality's innate dynamism

DOROTHEA LANGE

Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley

Gelatin silver print

EDWARD HOPPER

Nighthawks

O on C

Loneliness/isolation of Depression-era

GRANT WOOD

American Gothic

O on beaverboard

Midwestern Regionalism movement = American subjects.

DIEGO RIVERA

Ancient Mexico

Dramatized the history of his native land. Mexican/Spanish conflict.

Fresco

FRIDA KAHLO

The Two Fridas

O on C

WILLIAM VAN ALEN

Chrysler Building

New York, NY

Stainless Steel spire epitomizes Art Deco

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Robie House, Chicago, IL

Architecture of democracy - free individuals move within a free space

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Kaufmann House

Bear Run, Pennsylvania

Fallingwater has long sweeping lines, abrupt wall limits