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1 A Culture in Conflict 1919-1939

2 Physics Marie and Pierre Curie begin experimenting with radioactivity

3 Science Einstein advances his theory of relativity

4 Psychology Freud pioneers psychoanalysis (lying on the couch) and develops theories about unconscious and subconscious

5 Art Movements Fauvist Movement, 1905-1908 Cubist Movement, 1900s-1930s Dada Movement, 1916-1922 Surrealist Movement, 1920s- 1960s Social Commentary Movement, 1900s-1950s Bauhaus/International Style, 1920s-1930s

6 Fauvism

7 Cubism Shows artist’s conception of a new world with own system of order reduces nature to basic shapes

8 Georges Braque Considered by some art historians to precede Picasso in coining term and movement focuses on simultaneous views of object

9 Picasso Most famous cubist artist has Blue Period & Rose Period influenced by African tribal art synthetic and analytic cubism

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12 Dada Short movement focuses on machine- produced utilitarian articles as art Bauhaus Movement grows out of this, as well as modern art

13 Marcel Duchamp

14 Hans Arp

15 Max Ernst

16 Abstract Art Paul Klee

17 Vasily Kandinsky

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19 Surrealism Mocks the rationalist views of Western Civilization focuses on dreams and irrational thoughts Movement is still in evidence today

20 Surrealism Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory, 1931

21 Rene Magritte Considered first surrealist attempted to show dream experiences in which recognizable forms appear in surprising combinations

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24 Joan Miro surrealist borders on modern art due to lack of common ground with viewer also produced ceramic works

25 Miro’s Works

26 Social Commentary Movement Points out injustices through artwork Examples of Spanish Civil War, World War I, and Latin American problems

27 Picasso’s Guernica 1937

28 Kathe Kollwitz

29 Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright – function should determine form

30 The Guggenheim

31 Hollyhock House

32 Marin County Civic Center

33 Weltzheimer House

34 Bauhaus Follows Dada Movement in art Focuses on idea of “art follows function” No need for ornamentation lays groundwork for Modern Architecture Movement

35 Literature “Loss of faith” writers: T.S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway Stream of consciousness writers: James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

36 Radio The new invention of the radio creates mass culture

37 Jazz Pioneered by African Americans, combines Western harmonies with African rhythms

38 Women and Society Flappers shocked their elders Some progress was made: suffrage, higher education, more acceptance into new fields such as science and art


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