This Fauvist painted Woman with the Hat and The Joy of Life.
Henri Matisse
Matisse and Derain used intense, non-naturalistic color in this movement.
Fauvism
Picasso's radical 1907 painting of five female figures that helped pave the way toward Cubism.
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
This artist challenged the definition of art with Fountain and L.H.O.O.Q.
Marcel Duchamp
Dada's rejection of traditional values was closely connected to artists' disillusionment with this catastrophic event.
World War I
This Blue Rider artist created Improvisation 28 and pushed painting toward abstraction.
Vassily Kandinsky
Picasso and Braque developed this movement that fragmented objects and presented multiple viewpoints.
Cubism
Dalí's famous painting featuring melting watches.
The Persistence of Memory
Duchamp helped popularize this term for an ordinary manufactured object selected and presented as art.
Readymade
Rather than realistically representing the visible world, artists increasingly emphasized color, line, shape, and form through this major Modernist development.
Abstraction
This German Expressionist painted Street, Dresden.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
This Italian movement celebrated speed, machines, technology, and movement.
Futurism
Picasso created this monumental work in response to the bombing of a Spanish town.
Guernica
This Surrealist painted The Treachery of Images and The False Mirror.
René Magritte
Surrealists looked to dreams and this hidden part of the mind as a source for their art.
Unconscious/subconscious mind
This artist painted Fate of the Animals and was a member of The Blue Rider alongside Kandinsky.
Franz Marc
This anti-art movement emerged during WWI and embraced absurdity, chance, and attacks on traditional definitions of art.
Dada
Duchamp submitted a urinal as an artwork under the name R. Mutt.
Fountain
Jean Arp's Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance uses this process rather than complete artistic control.
Chance/Dropping squares on canvas
Surrealists were heavily influenced by this psychologist's ideas about dreams and the unconscious.
Sigmund Freud
This Dada artist created the massive photomontage Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany.
Hannah Höch
Dalí, Magritte, Miró, and Ernst are associated with this movement exploring dreams and the irrational.
Surrealism
This Magritte painting shows a pipe while telling us, essentially, that the image is not a pipe.
The Treachery of Images
This artist transformed an ordinary teacup, saucer, and spoon by covering them in fur.
Meret Oppenheim
Surrealism grew partly out of this earlier anti-art movement that rejected logic and traditional artistic values.
Dada