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1880- 1939- Cultural Expression

By ashleighbarry27

  • Impressionism emerges

    Impressionism emerges
    Impressionism derived from Realism and was concerned with how the artist saw an object, rather than what is seen.
  • Period: to

    Bibliography

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby
    http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/end_First_World_War.html
    Twentieth Century History book
    Google Images
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

  • Sigmund Frued’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” first published.

    Sigmund Frued’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” first published.
    Freud’s theories of the unconscious, human behaviour and dreams changed the way medicine approached mental illness and the way artists understood and represented the world.

  • Albert Einstein publishes four major works

    Albert Einstein publishes four major works
    His work on this redefined physics, science and understandings of relativity. It was significant in the development of nuclear physics, rocket science and energy.

  • Cubism is developed

    Cubism is developed
    Picasso and Braque develop Cubism in Paris and Marinetti launches the Futuristic Manifesto in Italy.

  • Expressionism

    Expressionism
    Vasili Kandinsky and Franz Marc establish Blue Rider, a group of Expressionist artists, in Munich.

  • Modernist art movement in Britain; Vorticists

    Modernist art movement in Britain; Vorticists
    Foundation of English Vorticist Movement by Percy Wyndham Lewis, London.

  • First world war commences

    First world war commences

  • Dunchamp produces first Dadaist paintings

    Dunchamp produces first Dadaist paintings
    Dadaism is an anti- art movement with a style that emphasised the absurd, illogical and bizarre in art.

  • Constructivism

    Constructivism
    Russian revolution and the emergence of constructivism. Constructivism was associated with Bolshevism and focused on the education on the masses and creation of the socialist system.

  • First world war ends

    First world war ends

  • Dada exhibition

    Dada exhibition
    First International DADA Exhibition in Berlin is held.

  • Surrealism launched by Andre Brenton, Paris.

    Surrealism launched by Andre Brenton, Paris.
    Surrealism endeavoured to represent the unconcious.

  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby
    F.Scott Fitgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.

  • New objectivity exhibition in Germany.

    New objectivity exhibition in Germany.
    Bauhaus (museum) established in Dessau.

  • First talking picture

    First talking picture
    Metropolis is a German expressionist science-fiction film.

  • War Memoirs

    War Memoirs
    Start of great depression &publication of number of first world war memoirs and novels in Britain and Germany.

  • Architecture exhibition

    Architecture exhibition
    International style architecture exhibition is held in London. Stalin endorses socialist realism as official style of the soviet union.

  • Nazi come to power in Germany,

    Nazi come to power in Germany,
    Bauhaus is closed due to Nazi opposition and there is an establishment of national socialist style in the arts.

  • Social realism only

    Social realism only
    Social realism deemed the only allowable art form in the soviet union.

  • Guernica

    Guernica
    Picasso paints Guernica in response to bombing of the city by Germany.

  • Second World War commences

    Second World War commences