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Henri Matisse's birth
Henri Matisse was a famous artist during the modernist period, attatched is an artwork of his 'The Sadness of the King' made in 1952, two years before his death. He incorporated collage into a lot of his pieces, a technique often used in modern art. -
Modernism is assumed to have begun
Modernism is assumed to have begun late in the 19th century although many say it only began at the start of the 20th century. -
Ernest Hemingway's Birth
Ernest Hemingway was a famous modernist novelist, known for writing The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises and more. -
German Expressionism
The painting attatched is 'The Red Tower at Halle' by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1915 -
Futurism
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized speed, technology, youth, and violence, and objects such as the car, the aeroplane, and the industrial city. Image Attatched: Gino Severini, 1912, Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, oil on canvas with sequins. -
Art Deco
Art Deco is a visual arts design style that first appeared in France just before World War I and began developing internationally in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s before its popularity began dissapearing after World War II. it uses bold geometric shapes, metals, rich colours, and luxurious decoration. Image attatched is an interior of a 1930s Art Deco apartment -
Facism
Benito Mussolini started the Fascist Party in Italy. He was expelled from the Socialist party in 1915 and returned home from war after injury which is when he started the party. Facism is defined as 'an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization'. Fascism came to visibility in early 20th-century Europe, influenced by national syndicalism. Fascism originated in Italy during WWI and eventually spread to other European countries. -
De Stijl
De Stijl was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917 in Amsterdam. he term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and perfection by a reducing form and colour. They simplified art to using only vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colours and black and white. -
Constructivism
Constructivism was a movement/style which began in Russia in 1919 in which assorted mechanical objects are combined into abstract mobile structural forms. The movement has influenced many aspects of modern architecture and design today. Constructivism can be seen used in Propoganda posters especially, the image attatched is an exampkle of a Russian propaganda poster. -
Post-Modernism begins
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature sees modernism "ceding its predominance to postmodernism" as early as 1939, however dates are highly debatable, Some believe Modernism still lived on until the 70s and post-modernism only began later.
