Early 20th Century Art

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Early 20th Century Art

• Movements espousing utopian ideals
• Suprematism
• Construcivism
• De Stijl
• Bauhaus

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Suprematism, Constructivism, Productivism
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Artist Kazimir Malevich Title Suprematist
Painting (Eight Red Rectangles) Medium Oil on
canvas Size 22 ½ X 18?" (57 X 48 cm) Date
1915 Museum Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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Artist Kazimir Malevich Title Suprematist
Composition Airplane Flying Medium Oil on
canvas Date 1915 (dated 1914) Museum MOMA
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Artist Photograph of Vladimir Tatlin Title
Monument to the Third International Date 1919
1920
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De Stijl (The Style) (began 1917)
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Tableau no. 2 / Composition no. V. 1914
Self-Portrait
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Artist Piet Mondrian Title Composiiton in Red,
Blue, and Yellow Date 1930 Medium oil on canvas
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Broadway Boogie-Woogie. 1942/43. Oil on canvas
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Artist Gerrit Rietveld Title Schröder
House Date 1925 Source Utrecht, the
Netherlands
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Interior, Schröder House, with Red-Blue Chair
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Bauhaus (1919 1933)

• Founder Walter Gropius (1883 1969)
• 2nd Director Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886
  1969), architect motto less is more
• Principles
• Importance of strong basic design craftsmanship
  fundamental to good art architecture
• Promoted unity of art, architecture design
• Knowledge of machine-age technologies materials
  design for progressive environments that would
  meet 20th century needs

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Artist Walter Gropius Title Bauhaus Building,
view from northwest Date 192526 Source
Dessau, Germany
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Artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Title From the Radio
Tower Berlin Date 1928
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Artist Josef Albers Title Homage to the Square
Ascending Date 1953
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Homage to the Square "Atuned"1958, oil on board
(masonite)
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Artist Marcel Breuer Title Tubular Chair Date
1925
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Artist Gunta Stolzl Title Gobelin
Tapestry Date 1926 - 1927
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Degenerate Art (Entartete Kunst)
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German Exhibition
Degenerate Art
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Artwork by Hitler
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