1. At the beginning of the 20th century, artists faced a world
that was changing at unprecedented speed...

2. photography
cinematography
sound recording
the telephone
the motor car
the airplane

3. “Artists needed a more radical
approach - a 'new way of seeing' that
expanded the possibilities of art in the
same way that technology was
extending the boundaries of
communication and travel.”
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4. A new form of art called Abstraction was born.

5. Abstraction is the process
of taking away or removing
characteristics from
something in order to reduce
it to a set of essential
characteristics.
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6. Cubism was the first abstract art movement to
reject traditional perspective and represent
objects from multiple viewpoints. The Cubists
wanted to emphasize the flatness of the canvas,
and visually fractured objects into flat shapes.

7. Pierre Auguste Renoir,
Girl with Mandolin, 1918
Picasso, Girl with Mandolin, 1910

8. Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

9. Georges Braque,
Man with a Guitar

10. Marcel Duchamp,
Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912

11. Juan Gris

13. Cow series by Theo Van Doesburg

18. Picasso’s Bull series