The first world war shatters the idea that technology would lead to human progress and the end of history. Art becomes disillusioned and strives to reconcile this new world environment.

1. The Rise of Modernism, Part IV:
ShatTered Utopia
1913-1939

2. Fernand Leger, The Cardplayers, 1917

3. Otto Dix, Light Signals, 1917

4. Gino Severini,
Plastic Synthesis of the Idea War, 1915

5. Max Beckmann, The Night, 1918-19

6. George Grosz, Fit for Service, 1918

7. Otto Dix, The Skat Players, 1920

8. Otto Dix, Portrait of the Dancer, Anita Berber , 1925

9. George Grosz, Metropolis, 1917

10. First International Dada Exhibition, Berlin, 1920

11. Hannah Höch, The Beautiful Girl, 1919-20

12. Francis Picabia, Love Parade, 1918

13. Salvador Dali, The Lugubrious Game, 1929

14. Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

15. Rene Magritte, The Treason of Images, 1929

16. Rene Magritte, The Therapist, 1937

17. Pablo Picasso, Seated Bather, 1930

18. Alberto Giacometti, Women with her Throat Cut, 1932

19. Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936