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Modernisms
1900-1980

A beginner's guide
Browse by image
Representation and abstraction: looking at Millais and Newman
Art and context: Monet's Cliff Walk at Pourville and Malevich's White on White
Contemporary Art, an introduction
An Introduction to photography in the early 20th century
Fauvism + Expressionism
Browse by image
Fauvism
A beginner's guide
Fauvism, an introduction
Henri Matisse
Luxe, calme et volupté
Bonheur de Vivre
Dance I
The Red Studio
The Blue Window
Goldfish
The Piano Lesson
The illustrated book Jazz
Expressionism
Expressionism, an introduction
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Self-Portrait As a Soldier
Street, Dresden
Street, Berlin
Emil Nolde, Young Couple
Alexej von Jawlensky, Young Girl in a Flowered Hat
Egon Schiele
Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait)
Nazi looting: Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally
The Hermits
Vasily Kandinsky
Improvisation 28 (second version)
Klänge (Sounds)
Cubism + early abstraction
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The Case for Abstraction
Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Picasso's Early Work
Portrait of Gertrude Stein
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Inventing Cubism
The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro
Pablo Picasso and the new language of Cubism
Still Life with Chair Caning
Picasso's Guitar
Guernica
Georges Braque
Le Viaduc à L'Estaque, (The Viaduct at L'Estaque)
The Portuguese
Fernand Léger, Contrast of Forms
Futurism
A beginner's guide
Italian Futurism: An Introduction
Giacomo Balla, Street Light
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Horse
Orphism
Robert Delaunay, Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon
Russian avant-garde
Varvara Stepanova, The Results of the First Five-Year Plan
School of Paris
Amedeo Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt
Constantin Brancusi
The Kiss
Bird in Space
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare
De Stijl
Piet Mondrian
Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow
TateShots: Piet Mondrian
Composition No. II, with Red and Blue
British art and literature
British Art and Literature During WWI
Dada + Surrealism
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Dada
Introduction to Dada
Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2
Art as concept: In Advance of the Broken Arm
Fountain
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
Boite-en-valise, Series F
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany
Francis Picabia, Ideal
Surrealism
A beginner's guide
Surrealism, an introduction
The Case for Surrealism
Man Ray, The Gift
René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe)
Salvador Dalí
The Persistence of Memory
Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m.
Meret Oppenheim, Object (Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon)
German art between the wars
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Prints and photography
Käthe Kollwitz, In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht
August Sander, Portraits
Umbo, The Roving Reporter
Bauhaus
Lyonel Feininger, Cathedral for Program of the State Bauhaus in Weimar
Paul Klee, Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine)
László Moholy-Nagy
Telephone Pictures
Composition A.XX
Climbing the Mast
New Objectivity
Christian Schad, Self-Portrait
Nazi visual culture
Paul Troost, House of (German) Art
Art in Nazi Germany
Latin American modernism
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Mexican Muralism
Mexican Muralism: Los Tres Grandes David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco
Diego Rivera
Detroit Industry Murals
Man at the Crossroads
Man Controller of the Universe
Calla Lilly Vendor (Vendedora de Alcatraces)
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park
José Clemente Orozco, Dive Bomber and Tank
Surrealism
Frida Kahlo
Frieda and Diego Rivera​
The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas)
Wilfredo Lam, The Jungle
Constructivism
Joaquín Torres-García, Inverted America
Lygia Clark, Bicho
Tarsila do Amaral, Abaporú
American art to WWII
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American Impressionism
When the department store was new: Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, The Shoe Shop
Symbolism
Henry Ossawa Tanner
The Banjo Lesson
Angels Appearing before the Shepherds
Ashcan School
The Ashcan School, an introduction
George Bellows, Both Members of This Club
291
Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage
Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer
Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
Georgia O'Keeffe, The Lawrence Tree
The American southwest
The lure of the American Southwest: E. Martin Hennings, Rabbit Hunt
Social Realism
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series
Grant Wood
Grant Wood, American Gothic
Grant Wood, Parson Weems' Fable
Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks
Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter
Sculpture
Alexander Calder, Mobile
Photography
Walker Evans, Subway Passengers, New York City
Ansel Adams: Visualizing a Photograph
Postwar American art
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Abstract Expressionism
A beginner's guide
Abstract Expressionism, an introduction
Willem de Kooning, Woman, I
Barnett Newman
Onement, I
Barnett Newman at MoMA
The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman
Representation and abstraction: looking at Millais and Newman
Mark Rothko
The Case for Mark Rothko
Rothko, No. 210/No. 211 (Orange), 1960
Mark Rothko, No. 3/No. 13
Mark Rothko (at MoMA)
Restoring Rothko
Jackson Pollock
Why is that important? Looking at Jackson Pollock
The Case for Jackson Pollock
Mural
The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock
Conservation: Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950
Paint Application Studies of Jackson Pollock's Mural
Lee Krasner, Untitled
Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 57
Franz Kline
Franz Kline at MoMA
The Painting Techniques of Franz Kline
New York School
The Impact of Abstract Expressionism
Jasper Johns
Flag
White Flag
Robert Rauschenberg
Canyon
Bed
Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Useful Art #5: The Western Motel
Ad Reinhardt
Abstract Painting
Ad Reinhardt at MoMA
The Painting Techniques of Ad Reinhardt
Helen Frankenthaler, The Bay
Josef Albers, Homage to the Square
Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor
Postwar figurative art
Benny Andrews, Flag Day
Pop art
A beginner's guide
Contemporary Art, an introduction
Pop Art
Andy Warhol
Why is this art? Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans
The Case for Andy Warhol
Marilyn Diptych
Gold Marilyn Monroe
Claes Oldenburg
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
Floor Cake
James Rosenquist, F-111
Roy Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral Set V
Minimalism + Earthworks
An introduction to Minimalism
The Case for Minimalism
Donald Judd, Untitled
Robert Morris
(Untitled) L-Beams
Bodyspacemotionthings
The Case for Land Art
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field
James Turrell, Skyscape, the way of color
Richard Serra
Richard Serra, Tilted Arc
Richard Serra, Intersection II
Richard Serra, Torqued Ellipse IV
Richard Serra, Band
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates
Photography
Gordon Parks, Off on My Own (Harlem, New York)
Postwar European art
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France
Jean Dubuffet
A View of Paris: The Life of Pleasure
Childbirth
Switzerland
Alberto Giacometti, Walking Man II
Germany
Joseph Beuys
Table with Accumulator (Tisch mit Aggregat)
Fat Chair
Feet Washing and Conceptual Performance
Sigmar Polke
Bunnies
Watchtower series
Gerhard Richter
Uncle Rudi
Betty
Gerhard Richter, September
Gerhard Richter, The Cage Paintings (1-6)
Anselm Kiefer, Shulamite
Britain
Francis Bacon, Triptych – August 1972
Lucian Freud, Standing by the Rags
Poland
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Androgyne III
Conceptual + Performance Art
Conceptual Art
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Conceptual Art, An Introduction
Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs
The Case for Yoko Ono
John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
Hans Haacke, Seurat's "Les Poseuses" (small version), 1884-1975
Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii
Yayoi Kusama
Narcissus Garden
Yayoi Kusama (Tate)
Bruce Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths
Performance Art
Performance Art, an Introduction
The Case for Performance Art
Vito Acconci, Following Piece
Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present
Post Minimalism
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Louise Bourgeois, Cumul I
Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece),
Eva Hesse, Untitled
Lynda Benglis, Omega, and Judy Chicago, Pasadena Lifesaver, Blue Series, Number 4
Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document
Jackie Winsor, #1 Rope
Global vanguards
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Nigeria
Uche Okeke
Korea
Song Su-Nam, Summer Trees
China
Liu Chunhua, Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan
Architecture and design
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Vienna Secession
Otto Wagner, Postal Savings Bank
Chicago School
Louis Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
New York skyscrapers & landmarks
Cass Gilbert, Woolworth Building
Van Alen, The Chrysler Building
Rockefeller Center
A Landmark Decision: Penn Station, Grand Central, and the architectural heritage of NYC
International style
Peter Behrens, Turbine Factory
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye
Frank Lloyd Wright
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Fallingwater
Gordon Bunshaft for Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Lever House
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York City
American design
Russel Wright, "American Modern" Pitchers
Glass Chair at the 1939 New York World's Fair
Late Modernism/Post-Modernism
Breuer, The Whitney Museum of American Art (now The Met Breuer)
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Robert Venturi, House in New Castle County, Delaware
Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao
Zaha Hadid, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts

Alexander Calder, Mobile

by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Video from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cite this page as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Alexander Calder, Mobile," in Smarthistory, January 27, 2016, accessed May 24, 2018, https://smarthistory.org/alexander-calder-mobile/.

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