The 20th CENTURY

  • Beginning of the 20th century

    Beginning of the 20th century
    A principios del s. XX se realizan importantes avances técnicos, científicos y en lo que respecta a las comunicaciones, que contribuyen a un rápido crecimiento industrial.
  • Primitivism

    Primitivism
    Primitivism is an artistic movement that emerged in Russia and was defended by some painters of the Diamond Jack, which favors naive and primitive forms of art.
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    Crisis of tonality and atonalism.

    This crisis was generated by the increasingly frequent use of ambiguous chords, less likely harmonic inflections, and the most unusual melodic and rhythmic inflections possible in tonal music.
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    Futurism

    Futurism is the first artistic movement to be organized as such, recognized and defined in 1909 through the Futurist Manifesto.
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    First world war

    The First World War, also called the Great War, was a worldwide military conflict, although centered in
    Europe, which began on July 28, 1914, and ended on November 11, 1918
  • The 20s

    The 20s
    Wets battled drys, religious modernists battled religious fundamentalists, and urban ethnics battled the Ku Klux Klan. The 1920s was a decade of profound social changes.
  • The fall of the Berlin Wall

    The fall of the Berlin Wall
    In November 1989, in a peaceful manner and without spilling blood or firing a gun, the German population tore down the Berlin Wall.
  • End of the 20th Century

    End of the 20th Century
    Bankruptcy of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers: Start of the global economic and financial crisis.