20th-century art

Twentieth-century art—and what it became as modern art—began with modernism in the late nineteenth century.^[1]

Overview

Nineteenth-century movements of

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  Henri Matisse, Woman with a Hat, 1905
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  Washington, DC.
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  Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
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  Georges Braque, Le Viaduc de L'Estaque (Viaduct at L'Estaque), 1908
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  Le goûter (Tea Time), 1911, Philadelphia Museum of Art. André Salmon

  dubbed this painting "The Mona Lisa of Cubism"
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  Le Chemin, Paysage à Meudon

  , Paysage avec personnage, 1911
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  Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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  Wassily Kandinsky Composition VII, 1912
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  František Kupka, Amorpha, Fugue in Two Colors, 1912
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  Robert Delaunay, Le Premier Disque, 1912–13
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  Love Song 1914, Museum of Modern Art
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  Black Square

  , 1915

Subsequent initiatives towards the end of the century involved a paring down of the material of art through Minimalism, and a shift toward non-visual components with Conceptual art, where the idea, not necessarily the made object, was seen as the art. The last decade of the century saw a fusion of earlier ideas in work by Jeff Koons, who made large sculptures from kitsch subjects, and in the UK, the Young British Artists, where Conceptual Art, Dada and Pop Art ideas led to Damien Hirst's exhibition of a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine.

Some important movements

See also

References