modern art: Other Modes of Modern Art

Other Modes of Modern Art

A more fanciful sort of modern art was created by Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, and Kurt Schwitters in the irreverent manifestations of the Dada movement. Dada artists devised “ready-mades” and collage objects from diverse bits of material. The movement was linked with Freudianism in the 1920s, producing the wild imagery of surrealism and verism, as seen in the paintings of Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, and Joan Miró. The 1920s also saw the beginning of an art of social protest by exponents of new objectivity, among them George Grosz, Otto Dix, and Max Beckmann. With the rise of fascism and the Great Depression of the 1930s, the protest increased in intensity. The Mexicans Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros painted murals in which the human figure was made monumental and heroic (see Mexican art and architecture).

Sections in this article:

Introduction
Modern Sculpture
Postwar Modern Art and the Rejection of Modernism
Other Modes of Modern Art
Geometric Abstraction
Cubism
The Isms of Early Twentieth-Century Art
Nineteenth-Century Painting after Impressionism
Impressionism
Origins of Modern Art
Bibliography

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