12: The Modern Art Movement (1900 CE – 1930 CE)
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- 12.1: Overview
- The world was engaged in world war and localized civil wars in the early part of the 20th century, generating a turbulent time for art.
- 12.2: American Modernism (1900 – 1930s)
- American modernism was a cultural movement in the United States, showing both progressive transformation and optimism in the future.
- 12.3: Fauvism (1900 – 1935)
- Fauvism was one of the first avant-garde art movements at the turn of the 20th century.
- 12.4: Expressionism (1905 – 1930)
- Fauvism gave way to Expressionism, a modernist movement of painting originating in Germany and Austria.
- 12.5: Cubism (1907 – 1914)
- Starting around 1907 and peaking in 1914, Cubism was one of the most important art movements of the 20th century, still influencing artists today.
- 12.6: Dada (1916 – 1930)
- eginning in 1916 and quickly moving to New York City, the Dada period of art was a reaction to the horrors World War I.
- 12.7: The Bauhaus (1919-1933)
- Recovering from World War I, Germany became a land of old bourgeois of industrial and militarism caught in the time between Russian Communism and Nazi racism.