The document highlights significant modern art pieces and artists between 1900 and 1950, including works by Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Mondrian, and Pollock. It discusses key movements and exhibitions, such as Cubism, Dadaism, and Constructivism, along with notable events like the Paris World's Fair in 1937. Prominent themes include the evolution of styles and the impact of historical context on artistic expression during this period.

1. Modern Art, 1900–50

2. Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906.

3. Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life), 1905–6.

4. Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre, 1905–6.Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906.

5. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden, 1908.

6. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913.

7. Pablo Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques, 1905.

8. Picasso, Family of
Saltimbanques, 1905.
Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906.

9. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Young Ladies
of Avignon), 1907.

10. Umberto Boccioni, Simultaneous Visions, 1911–2.

11. Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913.

12. Hugo Ball performing the sound poem Karawane
at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, 1916.

13. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.

14. Photograph of a destroyed town, Belgium, 1918.

15. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), Still Life, 1920.
“Purism fears the bizarre and the original. It seeks the pure element
in order to reconstruct organized paintings that seem to be facts from
nature herself.” — Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Édouard Jeanneret,
“Après le cubisme” (1918)

16. Gino Severini, Armored Train, 1915 (left) and
Two Pierrots, 1922 (right).
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 (top) and
Three Women at a Spring, 1921 (bottom).

17. Piet Mondrian, Lozenge Composition with Red,
Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black, 1925.

18. El Lissitzky, The Constructor, 1925.

19. International Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists
Weimar, Germany, 1922
Pictured: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (Bauhaus), Lucia Moholy-Nagy (Bauhaus), El Lissitzky (Constructivism),
Theo van Doesburg (Neoplasticism/Dada), Tristan Tzara (founder of Zürich Dada),
Hans Arp (Dada), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (Dada)

20. El Lissitzky, The Constructor,
1925.
Herbert Bayer, Poster for Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923.

21. Marcel Breuer, “Wassily” Chair, 1925–6.
Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913.

22. André Masson, Battle of Fishes, 1926.

23. Postcard, World's Fair, Paris, 1937: German Pavilion (left); Soviet Pavilion (right).

24. Picasso, Guernica, 1937.
Exhibition display in the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair.

25. George Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1913.

26. Georgia O’Keeffe, City Light, 1926.

27. Aaron Douglas, From Slavery Through Reconstruction from the mural cycle
Aspects of Negro Life, 1934.

28. Jackson Pollock, Full Fathom Five, 1947.