Timeline: Periods of Art and Artists

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Early 20th Century Art

                Fauvism

                Matisse: Woman with the Hat, 1905/ Red Room, 1908-1909

                Derain: The Dance, 1906

                Der Brucke/Der Blaue Reiter (Germany)

                Kirchner: Street, Dresden, 1908

                Nolde: Saint Mary in Egypt, 1912

                Kandinsky: Improvisation 28, 1912

                Marc: Fate of the Animals, 1913

                Picasso: Gertrude Stein, 1906-1907/ Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

                Cubism

                Braque: The Portuguese, 1911/ Bottle, Newspaper, Pipe and Glass, 1913

                Delaunay: Champs de Mars, 1911

                Picasso: Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912/ Guitar, 1912

                Lipchitz: Bather, 1917

                Arhipenko: Woman Combing Her Hair, 1930-1933

                Futurism

                Leger: The City, 1919

                Balla: Dynamism of a dog on a Leash, 1912

                Boccioni: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

                Severini: Armored Train, 1915

                World War I   1914-1918

                Russian Revolution   1917-1921

                Dada

                Arp: Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1916-1917

                Duchamp: Fountain, 1950/ The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors,

                    Even, 1915-1923

                Hoch: Cut With a Kitchen Knife, 1919-1920

                Schwitters: Mertz 19, 1920

                Ashcan School (The Eight) Henri, Sloan, Glackens+

                The Armory Show, 1913/ The Legacy

                Duchamp: Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2, 1912

                Stieglitz: The Steerage, 1907

                Weston: Nude, 1925

                Man Ray/ Hartley/ Davis/ Douglas

                Precisionism

                Demuth/Sheeler

                World War I and After

                Beckmann: Night, 1918-1919

                Dix: Der Krieg, 1929-1932

                Kollwitz: Woman with dead Child, 1903

                Lehmbruck: Seated Youth, 1917

                Barlach, War Monument, 1927

                Surrealism/Fantasy Art

                DeChirico: Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, 1914

                Ernst: Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924

                Dali: The Persistence of Memory, 1931

                Magritte: The Treachery of Images, 1928-1928

                Oppenheim: Object, 1936

                Miro: Painting, 1933

                Klee: Twittering Machine, 1922

                Constructivism and Di Stijl

                Malevich: Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, 1915

                Gabo: Column, 1923

                Tatlin: Monument to Third International, 1919-1920

                Mondrian: Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow, 1930

                Rietveld: Schroder House, 1924

                Bauhaus Design School  (Teachers)

                Maholy-Nagy, Albers, Gropius, Breuer, Stolzi and van der Rohe

Van der Rohe: model, glass skyscraper, 1922

                Breuer: tubular chair, 1925

                International Style-20th Century

                LeCorbusier: Domino House, 1914/ Villa Savoye, 1929

                Stock Market Crash 1929

                The Great Depression 1930’s

                Art Deco Style:

                Van Alen: The Chrysler Building, 1928

                Natural Architecture and Sculpture

                Wright: Robie House, 1907-1909/ Falling Water, 1936-1939

                Brancusi: Bird in Space, 1928

                Hepworth: Oval Sculpture (No. 2), 1943

                Moore: Reclining Figure, 1939

                Calder: kinetic, mobiles

                Art as Political Statement

                Picasso: Guernica, 1937

                Lange: Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley, 1935

                Hopper: Nighthawks, 1942

                Jacobs: The Migration of the Negro, 1940-1941, series

                Regionalism

                Wood: American Gothic, 1930

                Benton: Pioneer Days and Early Settlers, 1936 from mural series

                Orozco: Epic of American Civilization: Hispano-America, 1932-1934

                Rivera: Ancient Mexico, 1929-1935, mural

                World War II  1939-1945

Later 20th Century: Post-Modernism

                Existentialism: Absurdity of Human Existence

                Bacon: Painting, 1946

                Dubuffet: Uneasy Life, 1953

                Giacometti: Man Pointing, 1947

                Abstract Expressionism

                Pollock: Number 1 (Lavender Mist), 1950

                DeKooning: Woman I, 1959-1952

                Newman: Vir Heroicus Sublimus, 1950-1951

                Rothko: No. 14, 1960

                Smith, D.: Cubi XIX, 1964

                Suptnik launched 1957

                Computer chip invented, 1959

                Color Field Painting

                Stella: Mas o Menas, 1964

                Frankenthaler: Bay Side, 1967

                Morris Louis & Elsworth Kelly

                Kennedy assassinated, 1963

                First Moon landing, 1969

                Minimal Art

                Judd: Untitled, 1969

                Lin: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1981-9183

                Sculptural Trends

                Nevelson: Tropical Garden II, 1957-1959

                Hesse: Hang-up, 1965-1966

                Pop Art

                Hamilton: Just What is it That Makes Today’s Home So Different, So  Appealing?, 1956

                Johns: Flag, 1954-1955

                Rauschenberg: Canyon, 1959

                Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg

                SuperRealism

                Close: self-portraits

                Hanson: life-size figures

                Flack

                Site Specific Art

                Smithson: Spiral Jetty, 1970

                Christo and Jean Claude, Serra

                Modern/Post-Modern Architecture

                Wright: Guggenheim Museum, NYC, 1943-1959

                LeCorbusier, Saarinen, van der Rohe,

                Graves: Portland Building, 1980

                Piano and Rogers: Pompidou Center for Art, Paris, 1977

                Gehry: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 1997

                Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1989

                First Gulf War, 1990

                Expressionist Explorations in Art

                Rothenberg: Tattoo, 1979

                Kiefer: Nigredo, 1984

                Chicago: Dinner Party, 1979

                Sherman: Untitled File Still, #35, 1979

                Smith, K: Untitled, 1990

                Ringgold: Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemimah?, 1983

                Abakanowicz: Backs, 1982

                Tansey: A Short History of Modernist Painting, 1982

                Schnabel, Ofili, Schapiro, Kruger, Wilke, Quick-To-See-Smith, Viola,

                Koons, Arneson, Guerrilla Girls