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Impressionism
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. -
Impression, sunrise
Painting by Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. -
Laiter I
The First Leiter building was a Chicago commercial structure built in 1879 by Le Baron Jenney and demolished in 1972. -
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Chicago School
Also known as the Commercial style. It took place in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Some of the distinguishing features of the Chicago School are the use of steel-frame buildings with masonry cladding, allowing large plate-glass window areas and limiting the amount of exterior ornamentation. -
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Town planning in the 20th century
Planning and architecture went through a paradigm shift at the turn of the 20th century. The industrialized cities of the 19th century had grown at a tremendous rate, with the pace and style of building largely dictated by private business concerns. -
On the Terrace
Painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, On the Terrace, 1881, Art Institute of Chicago. -
Home Insurance Building
The Home Insurance Building was a skyscraper in Chicago, United States, designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1884, for the Home Insurance Company in New York, which some regarded as the first skyscraper in the world. -
The Auditorium Building
The Auditorium Building in Chicago is one of the best-known designs of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. Was completed in 1889. -
Monadnock Building
he Monadnock Building is a 16-story skyscraper located at 53 West Jackson Boulevard in the south Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. The north half of the building was designed by the firm of Burnham & Root and built starting in 1891. -
Haystacks, (sunset)
Pinting by Claude Monet, Haystacks, (sunset), 1890–1891, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. -
The scream
Painting by Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893, oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, 91 x 73 cm, National Gallery of Norway, inspired 20th-century Expressionists. -
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Expressionist architecture
Expressionist architecture is an architectural movement in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual and performing arts that especially developed and dominated in Germany. Brick Expressionism is a special variant of this movement in western and northern Germany and in The Netherlands. Expressionist architecture is one of the three dominant styles of Modern architecture (International Style, Expressionist- and Constructivist architecture). -
Notre-Dame at the end of the Afternoon
By Henri Matisse, Notre-Dame at the end of the Afternoon, 1902, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. -
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Fauvism
Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. -
Woman with a Hat
By Henri Matisse. Woman with a Hat, 1905. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. -
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Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas. -
Woman with Large Hat
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
By Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, considered to be a major step towards the founding of the Cubist movement. -
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Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century. -
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Futurist architecture
Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture born in Italy, characterized by strong chromaticism, long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency and lyricism: it was a part of Futurism, an artistic movement founded by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who produced its first manifesto, the Manifesto of Futurism, in 1909. -
Girl with a Mandolin
By Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 x 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. -
The Large Blue Horses
Painting by Franz Marc, Die großen blauen Pferde (The Large Blue Horses), 1911. -
Woman with a horse
By Jean Metzinger, La Femme au Cheval, Woman with a horse, 1911-1912, Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark. -
Glass Pavilion
Glass Pavilion at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition, 1914 (Bruno Taut) -
La Città Nuova
Perspective drawing from La Città Nuova by Sant'Elia, 1914. -
House with external elevators
House with external elevators, Antonio Sant'Elia, 1914 -
Power station
Power station, Antonio Sant'Elia, 1914 -
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Dada or dadaism
Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland, at the Cabaret Voltaire; New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris. Developed in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. -
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Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself. Its aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality". -
Het Schip
Dutch expressionism (Amsterdam School), Het Schip apartment building in Amsterdam, 1917–20 (Michel de Klerk) -
Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany
By Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90×144 cm. -
Einstein tower
Einstein Tower in Potsdam near Berlin, 1919–22 (Erich Mendelsohn) -
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Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. -
In Grey
In Grey (1919) by Kandinsky, exhibited at the 19th State Exhibition, Moscow, 1920 -
Dame!
by Francis Picabia, Dame! Illustration for the cover of the periodical Dadaphone, n. 7, Paris, March 1920. -
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International Style
The International Style is a major architectural style that was developed in the 1920s and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and modern architecture. It was first defined by Museum of Modern Art curators Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in 1932, based on works of architecture from the 1920s. -
Monument to the March Dead
Walter Gropius's "Monument to the March Dead" in Weimar -
ABCD
By Raoul Hausmann, ABCD (self-portrait), a photomontage from 1923–24. -
Bauhaus building in Dessau
Bauhaus building in Dessau, Walter Gropius, 1925-1926 -
Contemporary City
In 1925, he presented his "Plan Voisin", in which he proposed to bulldoze most of central Paris north of the Seine and replace it with his sixty-story cruciform towers from the Contemporary City, placed within an orthogonal street grid and park-like green space. -
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Art Deco
Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I.[1] Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners. -
The Weissenhof Estate
The Weissenhof Estate is a housing estate built for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Stuttgart in 1927. It was an international showcase of what later became known as the International style of architecture. -
ADGB Trade Union School
ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau bei Berlin, Hannes Meyer, 1928 -
The Treachery of Images
The Treachery of Images by René Magritte (1929), featuring the famous declaration, "This is not a pipe." Los Angeles County Museum of Art. -
Lovell House
Lovell House, Los Angeles, Richard Neutra, 1929 -
Barcelona Pavilion
Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Mies van der Rohe, 1929 -
The Chrysler Building 1
The Chrysler Building 1, William van Alen, 1930. -
Villa Savoye
Villa Savoye, Paris, Le Corbusier, 1930 -
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, Juan O´Gorman. 1931 -
The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story[c] Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and completed in 1931. The Empire State Building stood as the world's tallest building for nearly 40 years until the completion of the World Trade Center's North Tower in Lower Manhattan in late 1970. -
Woman with Her Throat Cut
By Giacometti, Woman with Her Throat Cut, 1932 (cast 1949), Museum of Modern Art, New York City. -
Fallingwater
Fallingwater is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania. -
El Moro
El Moro, Manuel Ortíz Monasterio, 1936 -
L'Ange du Foyer ou le Triomphe du Surréalisme
By Max Ernst, L'Ange du Foyer ou le Triomphe du Surréalisme (1937), private collection. -
Chandigarh
Chandigarh was the first planned city after independence from British rule
It is the capital city of the states of Punjab and Haryana.
The city is located at the junction of foothills of the Himalayas Mountain range and the Ganges plains.
It houses a population of over 1,000,000 inhabitants and is one of the richest cities of the nation.
After the death of Nowicki in 1950, Le Corbusier was commissioned. -
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Brutalist architecture
Brutalist architecture or Brutalism is an architectural style which emerged in the mid-20th century and gained popularity in the late 1950s and 1960s. It descended from the modernist architectural movement of the late 19th century and of the first half of 20th century. -
Seagram building
Seagram, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. 1954-1958. -
Habitat 67 in Montreal
Habitat 67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is a Brutalist building. -
Geisel Library at the University of California
Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego, 1968. -
Brazilia
Brazilian planner, preservationist and modernist thinker Lúcio Costa (27 Feburary 1902 – 13 June 1998) is best known for his 1957 plan of Brasília that shaped the Brazilian capital into a monument to utopian modernism. The planner was Niemeyer. -
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Postmodern architecture
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. -
The Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart
The Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany, by James Stirling (1977–83) -
At&t building
At&t building, 1984, Phillip Jhonson & John Burgee -
Piazza d'Italia
Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans, 1990. Charles Moore -
L'Oceanogràfic
L'Oceanogràfic (El Oceanográfico), Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, España. Félix Candela. 2002
