KEY IDEAS

• Early Modernism developed out of political unrest in all parts of the world.

• Artists had really developed their own styles and were quick to accept new technologies

• Rise in the Avant-garde

• Armory Show of 1913

• Stieglitz's Gallery 291

• Many artists published their own manifestos about their artworks and philosophies of their movement.

HISTORY

• Imperialist Expansion:                   

1. Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal --> Africa

2. Britain --> India

3. Dutch --> Indochina

4. Russia --> Central Asia and Siberia

5. Japan as its own rising formidable power in the Pacific                  

• 1917 : The US entered World War I

• 1930s : Great Depression - US and other Western countries

• 1920s-1930s: Rise of Totalitarianism

• 1941 : US enters World War II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor

• 1945:  WWII ends: The Allied forces defeated Germany, US dropped atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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MOVEMENTS, DATES, AND MAJOR ARTISTS:

• Fauvism (c. 1905)

• Expressionism (1905-1930s)

1. Die Bruke (1905)

2. Der Blaue Reiter (1911)

• Cubism (1907-1930s)

• Futurism (1909-1914)

• Suprematism (1913-1920s)

• Constructivism (1914-1920s)

• Dada (1916-1925)

• DeStijl (1917-1930s)

• Bauhaus (1919-1933)

• Precisionism (1920s)

• Surrealism (1924-1930s)

• Art Deco (1920-1930s)

• Organic Art (1920s-1930s)

• Depression Era (1930s)

• Abstract Expressionism (40s-50s)

• Pop Art (55-60s)

• Color Field Painting (60s)

• Conceptual Art (60s)

• Performance Art (60s)

• Op Art (60s)

• Minimalism (60s)

• Site/Environmental Art (70s-90s)

• Feminist Art (70s- present)

• Postmodernism (75- present)

• Video/Computer/Digital Art (contemporary)