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Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life), 1905-1906. Oil on Canvas. France.
Expressionism, Fauvism
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Vasilly Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (second version), 1912. Oil on canvas. Germany.
German Expressionism
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Berlin, 1913. Oil on canvas. Germany.
German Expressionism
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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Oil on canvas. France.
Proto-Cubism
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Georges Braque, The Portuguese, 1911. Oil on canvas, France.
Synthetic Cubism
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Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair-Caning, 1912. Oil and oilcloth on canvas. France.
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Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913. Bronze. Italy.
Futurism |
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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.
Readymade glazed sanitary china with black paint.
New York.
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Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919-1920. Photomontage. Germany.
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Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914. Oil on canvas. Paris and Berlin.
German Expressionism and Cubism |
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Max Ernst, Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924. Oil on canvas with wood construction. Paris.
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Meret Oppenheim, Object (Luncheon in Fur), 1936. Paris.
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René Magritte, The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images, 1928-1929. Oil on canvas. Belgium.
Surrealism |
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Paul Klee, Twittering Machine, 1922. Watercolor pen and ink on oil transfer drawing paper mounted on cardboard. Switzerland.
Surrealism |
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George Grosz, Fit for Active Service, 1916-1917. Pen and brush and ink on paper. Germany.
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Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Oil on canvas. France.
Cubism |
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Tarsila do Amaral, Abaporu, 1928. Oil on canvas. Brazil
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Joaquín Torres-García, Constructive Composition, 1943. Oil on canvas. Uruguay.
Universal Constructivism |
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Diego Rivera, History of Mexico, 1929-1935. Fresco. National Palace, Mexico City, Mexico.
Mexican Muralism |
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Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939. Oil on canvas. Mexico.
Folk Art; Surrealism |
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Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, 1915. Oil on canvas, Russia.
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Piet Mondrian, Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow, 1937-1942. Oil on canvas. Netherlands.
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Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1924. Bronze. Paris
Modernism |
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Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Schröder House, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1924.
Modernism |
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Walter Gropius, Shop Block, the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 1925-1926.
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Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France, 1929
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, Chicago, Illinois, 1907-1908.
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936-1939.
Organic style |
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Francis Bacon, Painting, 1946. Oil and pastel on linen. England.
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Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), 1950. Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas. New York City
Abstract Expressionism |
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Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1950-1952. Oil on canvas. New York City
Abstract Expressionism |
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Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-1951. Oil on canvas. New York City
Abstract Expressionism: Color Field Painting |
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Helen Frankenthaler, The Bay, 1963. Acrylic on canvas. New York City
Abstract Expressionism: Color Field Painting |
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Tony Smith, Die, 1962. Steel. United States
Minimalism |
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Robert Raushchenberg, Canyon, 1959. Mixed media, New York City
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Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962. Oil, acrylic, and silk-screen enamel on canvas. New York City
Pop Art |
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970
Land Art |
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Ana Mendieta, Flowers on Body, 1973. Color photograph of earth/body work with flowers, executed at El Yaagul, Oaxaca, Mexico
Performance Art |
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Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, 1980, Cor-ten steel. United States
Minimalism, Process Art |
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Maya Ying Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C., 1981-1983
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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979. Multimedia, including ceramics and stitchery. United States
Feminist Art? |
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Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965. Wooden folding chair, photographic copy of a chair, and photographic enlargement of a dictionary definition of a chair. United States
Conceptual Art |
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Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965. Performance at the Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf. Germany
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Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1988. Porcelain, United States
Post-Pop Art |
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (USA Today), 1990. Candies, individually wrapped in red, silver and blue cellophane. United States
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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground), 1989. Photographic silkscreen on vinyl. United States
Conceptual Art |
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Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Philip Johnson, Seagram Building, New York, 1956-1958
Functionalism, Modernism |
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1943-1959
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Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, Georges Pompidou Center of Art and Culture (the “Beaubourg”), Paris, France, 1977 |
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Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao Museo, Bilbao, Spain, 1977 |
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