A Review of Modern Art Movements 1900-1990

• German Expressionism• Der Blaue Reiter

• American Painting • Ashcan School

• Cubism• Constructivism• Futurism• Precisionism• De Stijl• Dada• Surrealism• Photography Comes of Age• American Painting

• Social Realism

• Photography• Social Realism

• Abstract Expressionism• Color Field• Hard Edge• 2nd Generation Abstract

Expressionism• Figural Expressionism• Sculpture Post WWII• Photography Post WWII• Pre Pop Art• Pop Art• Pop Art Sculpture• Minimalism• Photo Realism• Conceptual Art

• Environmental Art• Installation Art• Performance Art

(German) Expressionism 1905Der Blaue Reiter

Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky Paul Klee

(German) Expressionism 1905

Max BeckmanKathe Kollwitz

American Art 1908 –Ashcan School

George Bellows

John Sloan

Cubism 1908

Georges BraquePablo Picasso

Futurism (Italian) 1909

leger

Umberto BoccioniGinoSeverini

Constructivism (Russian) 1913

Tatlin Malevich

Precisionism (American) 1915

Georgia O’Keefe Charles Demuth

De Stijl 1917

Piet Mondrian Theo van Doesburg

Dada 1916

Marcel DuchampKurt Schwitters

Surrealism 1922

Salvador DaliGiorgio DeChirico

Photography coming of Age 1920’s

Man Ray Henri Cartier Bresson

Social Realism American Painting 1930’s and 40’s

Thomas Hart Benton

Jacob Lawrence

Social Realism 1930’s and 1940’s American Photography

Walker Evans

Dorthea Lange

Abstract Expressionism Late 1940’s

Willem De Kooning Franz Kline

Color Field 1950’s

Marc Rothko Helen Frankenthaler

Hard Edge 1950’s

Frank StellaEllsworth Kelly

2nd Generation Abstract Expressionism 1960’s

Cy Twombly Joan Mitchell

Figural Expressionism (post WWII)

Frida Kahlo Francis Bacon

Modern Sculpture (post WWII)

Louise NevelsonHenry Moore

Photography Post WWII

Diane Arbus Irving Penn

Pre-Pop Art 1950’s

Jasper JohnsRobert Rauschenberg

Pop Art 1960’s

Roy Lichtenstein Andy Warhol

Pop Art - Modern Sculpture

Dwayne Hanson Claes Oldenberg

Minimalism Late 1960’s-70’s

Richard SierraDonald Judd

Photorealism late 1960’s

Richard Estes

Chuck Close

Environmental Art late 1960’s

Richard Long

Robert Smithson

Installations late 1960’s

Eva Hesse Walter De Maria

Performance Art late 1960’s

Chris Burden

Joseph Bueys