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The 20th century
It has been calculated that there are more artists practising today than were alive in the whole Renaissance, all three centuries of it. But we are no longer following one storyline: we are in a new situation, where there is now no mainstream. The stream has flowed into the sea and all we can do now is to trace some of the main currents.
20th-century art is almost indefinable, and ironically we can consider that as its definition. This makes sense, as we live in a world that is in a constant state of flux. Not only is science changing the outward forms of life, but we are beginning to discover the strange centrality of our subconscious desires and fears. All this is completely new and unsettling, and art naturally reflects it.
The story of painting now loses its way temporarily: it enters upon an encounter with the unknown and the uncertain. Only the passage of time can reveal which artists in our contemporary world will last, and which will not.
We have dates in the 20th century, and pictures to attach to them, but there is no longer a coherent time sequence. This can be irritating to the tidy-minded, but it is in fact exciting in its adventurous freedom. With so many interesting artists, some of whom time may vindicate as of great importance, there is only space to touch briefly on those who seem to many observers to be part of the story, and not just footnotes.
Fauvism
Matisse, Master of Color
Expressionism
Artistic Emigres
Picasso and Cubism
The Age of Machinery
Towards Abstraction
Paul Klee
Pure Abstraction
Art of the Fantastic
Pre-War American Painting
Abstract Expressionism
Pop Art




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· · Fauvism
· Expressionism
· Cubism
· Futurism
· Dada
· Surrealism
· Abstract Expressionism
· Pop Art
· Op Art
· Minimalism
· Performance Art
· Environmental Art
· Neo-Expressionism
· Postmodernism

GENERALTop of page
AICT: Art Images for College Teaching
20th Century Architecture
20th Century Sculpture
20th Century Panting: Expressionism
Modernism (through the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts), with links to
British Arts and Crafts, 1880-1910
American Arts and Crafts, 1900-1915
European Art Nouveau, 1880-1905
American Art Nouveau, 1890-1910
Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1933
De Stijl, 1917-1928
Bauhaus, 1919-1933
European Art Deco, 1920-1940
American Art Deco, 1920-1940
Major Modern & Contemporary Visual Artists
Modern & Contemporary Art Collection (at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)
Moma, 164 pictures in the Museum of Modern Art, New York (through artpx)
EARLY 20th-CENTURY ARTTop of page
Art Nouveau,1890-1914 (exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)
Introduction: A New Style For an Age
The Paris World's Fair, 1900
The Sources of Art Nouveau
Nature
The City
Timeline of the Art Nouveau Period
Art Nouveau (through ArtLex)
Art Nouveau Architecture - Gallery 1, Gallery 2, Gallery 3 (through Howard Partridge's Cupola)
The Twentieth Century (through The WebMuseum, Paris), with links to:
Fauvism, with links to:
Fauvism (glossary)
Henri Matisse, with an additional link to:
The Green Stripe (Madame Matisse)
Expressionism, with links to:
Expressionism (glossary)
Egon Schiele
Gustav Klimt, with an additional link to:
The Kiss
Artistic Emigres, with links to:
Amedeo Modigliani
Picasso and Cubism, with links to:
Cubism (glossary)
Juan Gris, with further links to individual paintings, plus additional links to:
Musical Instruments (plus further links to individual paintings)
Still Lives (plus further links to individual paintings)
The Age of Machinery, with links to:
Futurism (glossary)
Towards Abstraction, with links to:
Wassily Kandinsky, with additional links to:
Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) (Kandinsky and Abstraction)
Small Pleasures
Franz Marc
Paul Klee, with additional links to:
The Golden Fish
Ad Parnassum
Pure Abstraction, with links to:
Wassily Kandinsky
Kasimir Malevich , with an additional link to:
Kasimir Malevich: Suprematist Compositions
Art of the Fantastic, with links to:
Dada (glossary) and Surrealism (glossary), with links to:
Henri Rousseau
Yves Tanguy
Pre-War American Painting, with links to:
Thomas Cole
Thomas Eakins
William Merritt Chase
Stuart Davis
Edward Hopper, with further links to:
Interior Scenes
Street Scenes
Landscapes
Joseph Cornell
Early Twentieth-Century Artists (through Carol Gerten's Fine Art: Featured Artists)
Pablo Picasso
Henri Matisse
André Derain
Marc Chagall
René Magritte
Edward Hopper
Gustav Klimt
Tamara de Lempicka
Frederick Carl Frieseke
August Macke
Wassily Kandinsky
Piet Mondrian
Paul Klee
Diego Rivera
Franz Marc
Edvard Munch
Joan Miró
Georgia O'Keeffe
Guy Rose
Maxfield Parrish
Fauvism (through ArtLex)
Early 20th-Century Artists (through Olga's Gallery)
Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (Russian, 1875-1957)
Mikhail Nesterov (Russian, 1862-1942)
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (Russian, 1878-1939)
Nathan Altman (Russian-Jewish, 1889-1970)
Pablo Picasso (French-Spanish, 1881-1973)
Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
George Grosz (German, 1893-1959)
Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920)
Jean (Hans) Arp (French, 1887-1966)
Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968)
Max Ernst (German, 1891-1976)
George Grosz (German, 1893-1959)
Francis Picabia (French, 1879-1953)
Man Ray (American, 1890-1977)
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888-1978)
Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983)
Henri Matisse and the Fauves (through the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)
The Wild Beasts
An Open window
Influences
Fauve Gallery
From Fauve Forward
Paintings of Henri Matisse (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries)
Paintings by Gustav Klimt (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries)
Die Brücke (in German)
Brücke Museum, Berlin-Dahlem (in German)
Kirchner Museum, Davos (Switzerland)
Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, Berlin
Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Köln
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
Egon Schiele Art Center, Krumlov (Czech Republic)
Egon Schiele
Paintings by Egon Schiele (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries)
Franz Marc Gallery: Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Arp Museum, Remagen
Aristide Maillol in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Dada (through ArtLex)
Information on Individual Dadaists (through the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries)
DaDa Online (maintained by John Buell), with links to:
Artists of DaDaism
List of available art images
Alberto Giacometti and the Surrealists (the text of "No More Play" by Rosalind Krauss, through Mark Harden's Artchive)
Max Beckmann: "Departure" (through Mark Harden's Artchive)
Futurism (through ArtLex)
Futurism (Kim Scarborough)
Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin
20th Century Architecture (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College), with links to:
Frank Lloyd Wright
LeCorbusier -- Villa Savoye
LeCorbusier -- Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, 1950-54
Schröder-Schräder House, Utrecht
Sir Edward Lutyens: Monument to the Missing of the Battle of the Somme, Thiepval, France, 1932
Architecture in Paris (early 20th century) (through Thais)
18th-century Architecture in France (through Vitruvio.ch Architecture on the Web)
Rue Franklin Apartments - by Auguste Perret (1902-1903)
Notre Dame du Raincy - by Auguste Perret (1923)
20th Century & Modern Architecture (through Howard Partridge's Cupola)
Notre Dame du Haut, Chapel at Ronchamp, France, designed by Le Corbusier, 1956 (Scott Demel)
1925: The Year in Review (12 paintings by major artists of 1925, through Mark Harden's Artchive)
Klee
Kandinsky
Bonnard
Braque
Miro
Matisse
Mondrian
Schwitters
Beckmann
Picasso
Hopper
Ernst
Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings (through the Harvard University Art Museums)
Introduction
Studies
Details
Career
De Stijl (through ArtLex)
Kasimir Malevich, White on White, c. 1918 (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of Art: Online images from Boston College), with links to:
20th Century Sculpture (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of Art: Online images from Boston College), with links to:
Arp, Jean
Balla, Giacomo
Baranoff-Rossine, Wladimir
Boccioni, Umberto
Duchamp, Marcel
Epstein, Jacob
Ernst, Max
Giacometti, Alberto
Hanson, Duane
Maillol, Aristide
Saitowitz, Stanley: New England Holocaust Memorial, Boston, 1995
20th Century Italian Sculpture (through Thais: 1200 years of Italian Sculpture)
Umberto Boccioni
Giacomo Manzù
Marino Marini
Arturo Martini
Chaim Gross: A Celebration (online exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Modern Sculpture (through Mark Harden's Artchive)
Painting and Sculpture of the 20th Century, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Kandinsky: Compositions, a review by Mark Harden (in Mark Harden's Juxtapositions)
Expressionism (in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio)
Expressionism (through ArtLex)
20th Century Painting: Expressionism (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
Giorgio Di Chirico (in Italian)
Marcel Duchamp World Community
Encounter with Marcel Duchamp (through Fresh Widow 3000), with links to
The Encounter Room
Music: Pendu Femelle
M. Duchamp Before...
With Hidden Noise
Lincoln-Wilson Effect
Apropos of M. Duchamp
M. Duchamp Time Line
Étant Donnés
Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp (Andrew Stafford)
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (biography, in Italian), plus links to locations of his important works (through Artdreamguide)
Surrealism (through ArtLex)
Max Ernst et Surréalisme (in French), with links to
La Surréalisme
Les peintres surréalistes
Max Ernst: 1891-1976
Man Ray Trust
Salvador Dali (through insecula.com)
Salvador Dali
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
The Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
Salvador Dali, "The Sacrament of the Last Supper" (through ellen's place)
The Official Magritte Site, including a link to a list of works
Paintings by René Magritte (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries)
Ashcan school (through ArtLex)
Grant Wood, in the collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa
Some Paintings by Grant Wood
Charles Sheeler
Paintings by Charles Sheeler (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries)
Paintings of Edward Hopper (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe (through ellen's place)
...the young artist
...O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
..."the faraway"
Paintings of William Glackens (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries)
Charles Demuth Foundation and Museum
Paintings by Maurice Prendergast (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries)
Norman Rockwell
The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Norman Rockwell: Drawing the American Dream (through the Springfield Library and Museums Association, Springfield, Massachusetts)
Harlem Renaissance (through ArtLex)
Aaron Douglas (1898 - 1979) (part of he Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, exhibition Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community)
Aaron Douglas (through Rhapsodies in Black)
African-Americans in the Visual Arts, A Historical Perspective, by Melvin Sylvester (Long Island University / C.W. Post Campus)
The Group of Seven, links provided through the Artcyclopedia
Group of Seven (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries)
Tom Thomson
A. J. Casson
J. E. H. MacDonald
Arthur Lismer
Lauren S. Harris
A. Y. Jackson
J. E. H. MacDonald
Emily Carr (through the Virtual Museum of Canada)
Emily Carr (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries
Irma Stern Museum, University of Cape Town
Eileen Gray, Designer and Architect (1878-1976)
Fundació Joan Miró
Home Page of Antoni Gaudí
Picasso: the official website
Cubism (through ArtLex)
Czech Cubist Architecture Tour
Paintings by Tamara de Lempicka (through Bert Christensen's CyberSpace Galleries)
Frida Kahlo: contemporary thoughts (edited and written by Daniela Falini)
Diego Rivera Mural Project at City College of San Francisco
The Virtual Diego Rivera Web Museum, with links to
Gallery
Murals
Mexican Folk-Ways magazine
Video Collection
Virtual panorama views of the Anahuacalli Museum - Dead's day "ofrenda"
Biography
Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads, 1934 (through PBS's TV series Culture Shock)
The frescoes by José Clemente Orozco at Dartmouth College
Man Released from the Mechanistic to the Creative Life
The Epic of American Civilization
Panel 1. Migration
Panel 2. Snake and Spears
Panel 3. Ancient Human Sacrifice
Panel 4. Aztec Warriors
Panel 5. The Coming of Quetzalcoatl
Panel 6. The Pre-Columbian Age
Panel 7. The Departure of Quetzalcoatl
Panel 8. The Prophecy
Panel 9. Totem Poles
Panel 10. Totem Poles
Panel 11. Machine Images
Panel 12. Machine Images
Panel 13. Cortez and the Cross
Panel 14. The Machine
Panel 15. Anglo-America
Panel 16. Hispano-America
Panel 17. Gods of the Modern World
Panel 18. Modern Human Sacrifice
Panel 19. Symbols of Nationalism
Panel 20. Chains of the Spirit
Panel 21. Modern Migration of the Spirit
Panel 22. Ideal Modern Culture I
Panel 23. Ideal Modern Culture II
Panel 24. Ideal Modern Culture III
Photograph of Orozco with a Paintbrush
Orozco Painting Quetzalcoatl (as in Panel 7)
The Henry Moore Foundation
Henry Moore: Journey Through Form, virtual exhibition at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington (New Zealand)
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
The Life and Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (a PBS presentation)
Works by Frank Lloyd Wright (through Howard Partridge's Cupola)
The Guggenheim Museum, New York (through Thais in 2000)
Generic Index of Buildings by Julia Morgan (through Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project)
LATER 20th-CENTURY ARTTop of page
The Twentieth Century (through The WebMuseum, Paris), with links to:
Postwar Expressionism in Europe
Francis Bacon, with additional links to:
Second Version of Triptych 1944
Three Studies for a Crucifixion
Abstract Expressionism, with links to:
Pollock, with additional links to:
Full Fathom Five
Lavender Mist: Number 1, 1950 (Action Painting)
Pop Art, with links to:
David Hockney, with an additional link to:
A Bigger Splash
Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Abstract Expressionism (through ArtLex)
Frederic Taubes (1900-1981)
Jon Schueler (1916-1992)
Mark Rothko (exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), with links to
Introduction
Early Years
Myths & Symbols
Toward Abstraction
The Classic Painting
Late Works
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Current Exhibitions and Projects
Recent Exhibitions and Projects
Chronology of Large-Scale Projects
Biographies
Claes Oldenburg: Printed Stuff (exhibition at the Madison Art Center)
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)
Barbara Hepworth in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
The Andy Warhol Museum, with a link to Collections
Film & Video
Art Collection
Archives
Warhols.com (commercial)
Biography
Prints
Portraits
Early Works
More Prints
Warholstars (Andy Warhol), including chronologies of his Life, Art, and Films
Ten Years After: The Warhol Factory by the Artists of the Warhol Circle (a multimedia exhibition presented by Audart)
Pop Art (through ArtLex)
James Rosequist
The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Rauschenberg's Signature on the Century (feature in The Christian Science Monitor)
Alexander Calder Foundation
The Official M. C. Escher Website
Kenneth Snelson, sculpture in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Juan Muñoz, sculpture in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
20th Century Architecture (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College), with links to:
I. M. Pei
Centre National d'Art et Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Painting and Sculpture of the 20th Century , in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
abstract-art.com (Repository of Abstract Art, Modern Paintings, and Sculpture)
Minimalism (through ArtLex)
Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall (graffiti art)
Guerilla Girls
Jenny Holzer
The Art of Christo & Jeanne-Claude, with links to
Early Works
Dockside Packages
Iron Curtain, Rue Visconti
Wrapped Fountain & Tower
Wrapped Kunthalle
Cubicmeter Package
MOCA Wrapped, Chicago
Wrapped Coast
Wrapped Monuments
Valley Curtain
Wrapped Roman Wall
Running Fence
Wrapped Walk Ways
Surrounded Islands
Pont Neuf Wrapped
The Umbrellas
Wrapped Reichstag
The Wall
Wrapped Trees
The Gates and
Work in Progress: Over the River (Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado)
Work in Progress: The Mastaba (Project for the United Arab Emirates) plus
Biography
Bibliography, Books, Catalogs, Film/Video
Nam June Paik in the 90's: the Electronic Superhighway
Judy Chicago
Audrey Flack, with links to:
Mel Ramos
Adrian Piper
a Yoko Ono website (unofficial resource by Sari Gurney)
Keith Haring
A Tribute to Keith Haring
Bill Viola
Modern Modern & Contemporary Visual Artists
18th-century Architecture in France (through Vitruvio.ch Architecture on the Web)
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (1971 - 1978) by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers
Institut du Monde Arabe - by Jean Nouvel, (1981 - 1987)
La Defense Great Arch (La Grande Arche) by Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, Paul Andreu (1982 - 1990)
City of the Sciences and the Industry - Citè des Sciences et de l'Industrie by Adrien Fainsilber (1987)
IRCAM Extension by Renzo Piano (1989)
Opéra de la Bastille by Carlos Ott (1989)
Le ministère de l'Économie et des Finances by Paul Chemetov and Borja Huidobro (1990)
Funicular, Montmartre, by François Desiaugier (1990)
Villette Housing - Logement avenue Jean-Jaurès by Aldo Rossi (1991)
Les bureaux de la Ville de Paris by Aymeric Zubléna (1992)
Chairs to the Villette Park by Philippe Starck (1993)
Pyramide du Louvre (Grand Louvre) by Ieoh Ming Pei (1993)
System of signs, by Philippe Starck (1993)
Villette Park - Le Parc del la Villette, by Bernard Tschumi (1993)
Music City, La Citè de la Musique by Christian de Portzamparc (1990 - 1994)
American Center by Frank O. Gehry (1994)
Les Abribus (Bus-stop) by Sir Norman Foster and Partners (1994)
Public bathrooms by J. C. Descaux (1994)
Temporary American Center by Nasrine Seraji (1994).
François Mitterand Library - La Bibliothèque François Mitterand by Dominique Perrault (1995)
Frank O. Gehry. The Architect's Studio
Frank O. Gehry
Gehry's Guggenheim, Bilbao
Architecture of the Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
Rose Center Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, New York (Photo Essay by Robert A. Baron)