Marcel Duchamp

The Fountain
1917

Dada or Dadaism

 Dada is an artistic and literary movement

founded 1915 Zurich, Switzerland, by the
Romanian poet Tristan Tzara and others
in a spirit of rebellion and disillusionment
during WWI.

L.H.O.O.Q
1917

Bicycle Wheel

Bottle Rack
1914

In Advance of the Broken Arm

1915

Why not Sneeze Rose Selavy?

With Hidden Noise

1916. Readymade: Ball of string between two brass plates
held together by four screws.

Fresh Widow

Man Ray
The Gift

Enigma of Isidore Ducasse

Kurt Schwitters
Cherry Picture

Surrealism

What is Surrealism?
Surreal, means above reality
Centered around the theory that the mans
conscious activity was but a small and limited
area compared to the vast realm of the
unconscious of which dreams are only symbols
Surrealism is a movement in art, literature, and
film that developed out of Dada around 1922.
Led by Andre Breton, who produced the
Surrealist Manifesto 1924, the Surrealists were
inspired by the thoughts and visions of the
subconscious mind.

The Persistence of Memory, 1931

Sleep

Meditative Rose
1958

Crucifixion

Swans reflecting Elephants

The Lovers

The Collective Invention

In Golconde

Carte Blanche

Empire of Lights

Portrait of Edward
James

Neo-Plasticism (De Stijl)

 An art movement advocating pure

abstraction and simplicity form reduced
to the rectangle and other geometric
shapes, and color to the primary colors,
along with black and white.
Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944) was the
group's leading figure.

Piet Mondrian
Blue Plane

Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue

Broadway Boogie-Woogie

1916 1939 (W.W. II)

Nazis gain
control of
Germany,
1933

Fascists gain
control of Italy,
1922

1916

1917

ca. 1922

Spanish
Civil War,
1936-39

World War II
begins, 1939

ca. 1932

Dada Movement

De Stijl Movement

Surrealism
Abstraction in Sculpture

Duchamp,
LHOOQ,
1919

ca. 1919

1924

Dali, The
Persistence
of Memory,
1931

Picasso,
Guernica,
1937

Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism
A US movement in abstract art which
emphasized the act of painting, the expression
inherent in the color and texture of the paint
itself, and interaction of the artist, paint, and
canvas.
A painting movement in which artists typically
applied paint rapidly, and with force to their huge
canvases in an effort to show feelings and
emotions, painting gesturally, non-geometrically,
sometimes applying paint with large brushes,
sometimes dripping or even throwing it onto
canvas.

Jackson Pollock

Stenographic Figure, 1942

Lavender Mist: Number 1

1950

Ocean Greyness, 1953

Color Field Painting

Paintings with solid areas of color covering
the entire canvas.
A type of Abstract Expressionism, these
artists were interested in the lyrical or
atmospheric effects of vast expanses of
color, filling the canvas, and by suggestion,
beyond it to infinity.
Most color-field paintings are large
meant to be seen up close so that the
viewer is immersed in a color environment.

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko
No. 10
1959

Orange and Tan

1954

Op Art

Op Art
A twentieth century art movement and
style in which artists sought to create an
impression of movement on the picture
surface by means of optical illusion. It is
derived from, and is also known as Optical
Art and Perceptual Abstraction.

Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch,

1898-1972)
Balcony
1945
Lithograph

Reptiles
1943
Lithograph

Drawing
Hands
1948
Lithograph

Sun and Moon

1948
woodcut

 His images dealt with the regular division

of the plane, limitless space, rings and
spirals in space, mirror images, inversion,
polyhedrons, relativities, the conflict
between the flat and the spatial, and
impossible constructions.

Relativity
1953

Sky and
Water I

Waterfall
1961

Ascending and
Descending
1960

Blue-Black

Blue/Red
1983
silkscreen

Zebra
1987
silkscreen

Bridget Riley
Cataract

World
War II
1939-45

Israel
founded,
1949 NATO

Post-War to
Post-Modern

Apollo 11
lands on the
moon, 1969

founded, 1949
1945

1958

1960

1970

Abstract Expressionism

Minimal Art

US drops atomic
bombs on
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, 1945

Conceptual Art

Pop Art
Existentialism

Sartre,
Being and
Nothingness
1943

De Kooning,
Excavation,
1950

Beckett, Waiting
for Godot, 1952

Warhol, Marilyn
Monroe Diptych,
1962

Lichtenstein,
Whaam!, 1963

Christo and
Jeanne-Claude,
Running Fence,
1970-76