www.whokilledmodernart.weebly.com I am on the hunt for the History of Modern Art… Where did it begin? What events caused it to happen? Who are the major players? What does it look like?

2. I am on the hunt for the History of Modern Art…
Where did it begin?
What events caused it to happen?
Who are the major players?
What does it look like?
Help me map out a timeline of events and
evidence to solve this crime!

3. TIMELINE OF MODERNSIM

4. BREAKING NEWS

5. Salon De Refuse
An uproar occurred in 1863, following the rejection by the Salon Jury of
an unusually high number (3,000) of submitted paintings, including
Dejeuner surL'Herbe (1863) by EdouardManet, and works by Whistler,
Cezanne, and Camille Pissarro. To pacify the critics and "to let the public
judge the legitimacy of these complaints", the French Emperor Napoleon
III ordered that painters whose works had been rejected by the Salon
Jury could exhibit their works in a show adjacent to the Salon. The show
became known as the Salon des Refuses (exhibition of rejects), a name
subsequently applied to any exhibition of artworks rejected by the jury of
the official Paris Salon, notably shows in in 1874, 1875, and 1886. Although
in 1863 the rejected works were subjected to greater criticism by the art
critics, the very existence of this 'alternative' exhibition undermined the
exclusivity of the official Salon. Henceforth, artists began organizing their
own shows (notably the Impressionists in the 1870s and 1880s), and many
art historians date the beginning of Modern Art to the first Salon des
Refuses.
REFERENCE: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/salon-paris.htm#salondesrefuses

6. BREAKING NEWS

7. Realism
Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers (late 18th century)

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CvKV_
tr_Q

9. BREAKING NEWS

10. Impressionism
Renoir, Dance at le Moulin de la Galette Montemarte, 1876

11. Impressionism
Claude Monet,
Rouen Cathedral-
Harmony in Blue,
1893

12. Neo - Impressionism
Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnières, 1884

13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BSdUjWpN0Q
&feature=related

14. Post - Impressionism
Van Gogh, Mountains at St. Rèmy, 1889

15. Post - Impressionism
Cezanne, Still Life: Flask, Glass and Jug, 1877

16. BREAKING NEWS

17. Fauvism
Andre Derain, Bridge over the Riou, 1906

18. http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Red-
Studio.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1AaJ_pw8
i4

19. BREAKING NEWS

20. Primitivism
Picasso, Les Demoiselle d´Avignon, 1907

21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUnPJHi
f8U

22. Primitivism
Paul Gauguin,
The Moon
and the Earth,
1893

23. BREAKING NEWS

24. Expressionism
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Artillerymen, 1915

25. http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Expressionism.html

26. Expressionism
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28, 1912

27. BREAKING NEWS

28. Cubism
Georges Braque,
Clarinet and Bottle
of Rum on a
Mantelpiece, 1911

29. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ1zcViA
UBc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHmeRiR5
s_U&feature=related
http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/
audio/142

30. BREAKING NEWS

31. Futurism
Giacomo Balla, Speeding Automobile, 1912

32. Futurism
Giacomo Balla, Dog on Leash, 1912

33. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=HY8kVa0qB9Q

34. BREAKING NEWS

35. Dadaism
Kurt Schwitters, Merz 163, with woman sweating, 1920

36. Dadaism
Duchamp, LHOOQ

37. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq
kIJ0odFxA&feature=related

38. BREAKING NEWS

39. De Stijl
Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1930

40. BREAKING NEWS

41. Surrealism
Max Ernst, Attirement of the Bride, 1940

42. Surrealism
Salvidor Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus

43. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFn4U
mkBcaQ

44. BREAKING NEWS

45. Abstract Expressionism
Mark Rothko,
Untitled (Violet, Black,
Orange, Yellow on
White and Red), 1949

46. Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1949ish

47. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVE-
WQBcYQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2C8ziyO
WR8
http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/
videos/250

48. BREAKING NEWS

49. Minimalism
Dan Flavin,
Monument for
V.Tatlin, 1966-69

50. AND THEN…?