Malevich

Installation photo of 0, 10

1915

Suprematism

black square in corner mimics Russian Orthodox placement of religious iconography in top center- Lenninist socialism

Malevich

Suprematist Compostion: White Square on White

1918

Suprematism

absence of feeling

El Lissitzky

Proun 99

1925

Suprematism

architectural design, axiometric drawing

Lissitzky 

Proun Room

1923

Suprematism

Tatlin

Counter-Relief

iron copper wood rope

1915

Constructivism

founder of construcivism- assemblage of materials (industrial) aimed to integrate art to enhance lives.

Tatlin

Model for Monument to the Third International

Wood, iron, glass

1920

Constructivism

meant to involve everyone in society- made by carpenters in a public space

meant to rotate once a day, month, year

was never built

Rodchenko

Hanging Construction (cardboard)

1920

Constructivsm

mobile

collapsisble work of art 2d->3d

Gabo

Column (wood, painted metal, glass)

1923

Constructivsm

Duchamp

Nude Descending a Staircase no 2

1912

Dada

Cubo-Futurist in nature, he was mocking it

Duchamp

The Passage from Virgin to Bride

1912

Dada

sexualized machine

expressing sex as mechanized

Duchamp

Fountain

1917

Dada

"found" objects upgraded to art by declaration of the artist

ready made objects

Duchamp

Bottle Rack

1917

Dada

ready made object

Duchamp

Bicycle Wheel

1913

Dada

assisted ready made object

Duchamp

Tu m'

1918

Dada

comissioned for socialite

last painting 

Duchampian elements- corkscrew, pencil, bicycle wheel, tromp l'oeil tear

Duchamp

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even

1915

Dada

bride on top (insecstoid figure) eminating sexuality

bachelors spinning around in chocolate grinder- can never get to her

Duchamp

Box in a Valise

1930's

Dada

collection of miniatures of his works in a briefcase- portable retrospective 

Picabia

Ideal

1915

Dada

part of his series of machine portraits- this is Steiglitz depicted as a broken camera and automobile brake

Man Ray

Gift

Painted flatiron and tacks

1921

Dada

functional iron made non functional with tacks

Man Ray

Untitled Rayograph

1922

Dada

sensetized paper

Jean Arp

Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance

1916

Dada (Zurich & Berlin)

Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Dada Head (wood)

1920

Dada

hat manequin- people are dummies

Schwitters

Picture with Light Center (rope, wire, mesh, paper, oil on cardboard)

Merz

constructed someting beautiful from such lowly objects

Schwitters

Merzbild 25A

1920

Merz

abstraction out of everyday objects

junk art- looks dirty

Schwitters

Merzbau, Hannover

1931

Merz

installation (one of the first) of his lifes work

cathederal of erotic misery

Breton, Tzara, et al

Equisite Corpse

1930

Surrealism

fold paper and each person draws a section

biomorphs-surrealist beings

Arp

Objects Arranged According to the laws of Chance or Navels

1930

Surrealism

Arp

Head with Three Annoying Objects

1930

surrealism

Ernst

Ambiguous Figures

1920

Surrealism

Ernst

Celebes

1921

Surrealism

machine like elephant

front and backside

Ernst

Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale

1924

Surrealism

painting and sculpture

Ernst

The Horde

1927

Surrealism

rubbing and scraping

premonition to WWII

Miro

Nude With a Mirror

1919

Surrealism

cubist arms

Miro

Carnival of Harlequin

1925

Surrealism

central horizon line

ladder, fish carcas, globes, eyeballs

Miro

Painting

1933

Surrealism

mostly abstract, random shapes

Miro

Object

1936

Surrealism

wood, stuffed parrot, perch

manequin leg

totemic

Dali

Accommidations of Desire

1927

Surrealism

lion wont let him have what he desires (Gala)

Dali

The Persistence of Memory

1931

Surrealism

ants, tree limbs, mesa

Magritte

The Treachery of Images

1929

Surrealism

This is not a pipe

its a painting of a pipe

Hopper

Early Sunday Morning

1930

Pre-War

Magritte

The Human Condition

1933

Surrealism

painting of a painting of the outside 

questions how humans see the world

Magritte

The Rape

1934

Surrealism

face as a womans body- men dont even see faces

mental rape

vagina dentata

Oppenheim

Object (Luncheon in Fur) 

1936

Surrealism

unusable (Dada)

unclean

sexualized

Giacometti

Woman with her throat cut

1932

Surrealism

sexual violence

fetishistic

Freudian

Picasso

Girl Before a Mirror

1932

Surrealist tendencies

no shadow, multiple viewpoints in face

Picasso

Guernica

1937

Surrealism

mural of Guernica in N. Spain where a facist plane dropped a bomb (new air warfare)

shows bloodied bodies, bull, lightbulb, eyeball

Davis

Report from Rockport

1940

Pre War

Gorky

The Artist and his Mother

1930

Pre War

Gorky

The Liver is the Cock's Comb

1930

Abstract Expressionism

Pollock

Guardians of the Secret

1943

Abstract Expressionism

Pollock

Number 1A 1948

1948

Abstract Expressionism

De Kooning

Woman I

1950

Abstract Expressionism

de Kooning

Painting

1948

Abstract Expressionism

Rothko

No. 1

1948

Abstract Expressionism

Newman

Genesis- The Break

1946

Abstract Expressionism

Newman

Onement 1

1948

Abstract Expressionism

zip- division between heaven and earth

Newman

Vir Heroicus Sublimus

1950

Abstract Expressionism

Sloan

Hairdresser's Window

1907

American Art

Bellows

Cliff Dwellers

1913

American Art

Riis

Five Cents a Spot

1889

American Art

Hine

Children in a Carolina Cotton Mill

1908

American Art

Stieglitz

The Steerage

1907

American Art

Weber

Chinese Restaurant

1915

American Art

Hartley

Portrait of a German Officer

1914

American Art

Dove

Nature Symbolized no. 2

1911

American Art

O'Keeffe

Music- pink and blue II

1919

American Art

Benton

City Building

1930

American Art

Grant Wood

American Gothic

1930

American Art