Modernisms
Term for the invention and pursuit of artistic strategies that seek not just close but essential connections to the forces of social modernity.
Modernisms
Term for the invention and pursuit of artistic strategies that seek not just close but essential connections to the forces of social modernity.
Basics to get you started
Modern art and reality
Expression and modern art
Primitivism and modern art
The Case for Surrealism
Dada collage
Surrealist Techniques: Subversive Realism
Marcel Duchamp and the viewer
Egyptian Surrealism, an introduction
Surrealism: Imagining A New World
The Bauhaus, an introduction
The Bauhaus: Marcel Breuer
The Bauhaus: Marianne Brandt
The Bauhaus and Bau
Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), an introduction
Mexican muralism: Los Tres Grandes—David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, and José Clemente Orozco
International Style architecture in Mexico and Brazil
The origins of modern art in São Paulo, an introduction
Frida Kahlo, an introduction
Breaking the frame—the Concrete Art movement
Painting in an industrial age—the Concrete Art movement
The challenge of a straight line—the Concrete Art movement
Geometric abstraction in South America, an introduction
The impact of Abstract Expressionism
How photographs of poverty in the Americas ignited an international battle over propaganda
New Topographics
An interview with Robert Frank
Alternative art spaces in New York City
Self Help Graphics and Art
Dada Manifesto
Dada pataphysics
Dada performance
Dada politics
Dada readymades
Becoming modern in 19th-century Europe, an introduction
Black Mountain College
Cubism and multiple perspectives
Cubist Sculpture I
Cubist Sculpture II
De Stijl, Part I: Total Purity
De Stijl, Part II: Near-Abstraction and Pure Abstraction
De Stijl, Part III: The Total De Stijl Environment
Der Blaue Reiter
Fauve Landscapes and City Views
Fauvism, an introduction
Formalism I: formal harmony
Formalism II: truth to materials
A brief history of the representation of the body in Western sculpture
Abstract art and Theosophy
Umberto Boccioni and the Futurist City
Surrealist Techniques: Automatism
Surrealist Techniques: Collage
Surrealism and Psychoanalysis
Surrealism and Women
Surrealism, an introduction
Surrealism: Origins and Precursors
Surrealist Exhibitions
Surrealist Photography
Simultanism: Robert Delaunay
Salon Cubism
Abstract Expressionism, an introduction
Constructivism, Part II
Art in the Mao era and Cultural Revolution, an introduction
Inventing Cubism
Italian Futurism: An Introduction
Jewish history in the post-war period
Shōwa period, an introduction
Expressionism as Nordic?
Expressionism, an introduction
The case for Minimalism
Kazimir Malevich and Cubo-Futurism
Kandinsky, Apocalypse, Abstraction
Performance art, an introduction
Contemporary art, an introduction
Futurist Free Word Painting
Running in sneakers, the Judson Dance Theater
Taishō period, an introduction
What is: Abstract Expressionism?
What is: Degenerate Art?
Russian Neo-Primitivism: Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov
Suprematism, Part I: Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism, Part II: El Lissitzky
Lang Jingshan and early Chinese photography
Latin American art, an introduction
Representation and abstraction: looking at Millais and Newman
The Ashcan School, an introduction
Synthetic Cubism, Part I
Synthetic Cubism, Part II
The case for Conceptual art
The reception of African art in the West
Murals and Public Art in 1930s Rome
Franz Marc and the animalization of art
The case for land art
Pablo Picasso’s Early Work
Orientalism
A landmark decision: Penn Station, Grand Central, and the architectural heritage of NYC
Mother, nation, icon: picturing territory and belonging in South Asia
The Case for Abstraction
Fluxus, an introduction
Works of Art
Artists
Ansel Adams, The Tetons – Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, 1942 (National Archives)
Periods, Cultures, Styles
![Roger Fenton, [Landscape with Clouds], probably 1856, salted paper print from glass negative, 25 x 43.6 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Video from The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fenton-2048x878.jpg)
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Pictorialist
1850s–1930s
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Symbolism
c. 1880–1910
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Latin American Modernism
1900–1980
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Ashcan School
c. 1900–1930s
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Wiener Werkstätte
1903–32
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School of Paris
c. 1904–39
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1905–17
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Expressionism
1905–14
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Cubism
1907–39
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Futurism
1909–17
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Metaphysical art
1910–1924
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Orphism
1912–14
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Suprematism
1913–34
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Dada
1913–24
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Taos Society of Artists
1915–27
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Russian Constructivism
1915–34
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De Stijl
1917–31
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Purism
1918–25
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Harlem Renaissance
c. 1918–1940
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Russian avant-garde
c. 1918–41
