7.40: Key Characteristics of Art: 1900 to the Present

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Identify and describe key characteristics and defining events of art from 1900 to the present

Learning Activities

The learning activities for this section include:

Reading: Cubism and Picasso’s Still Life with Chair Caning
Video: Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913, Abstract Expressionism
Reading: British Art and Literature During WWI
Reading: Italian Futurism: An Introduction
Reading: Dada and Surrealism
Reading: Art in Nazi Germany
Reading: The Origins of Abstract Expressionism
Reading: Photography
Reading: Contemporary Art
Reading: Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe
Reading: Conceptual Art
Reading: Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document
Reading: Appropriation (The “Pictures Generation”)

Take time to review and reflect on each of these activities in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.

Authored by: Lumen Learning and Wendy Riley. License: CC BY: Attribution