Slide IDs from modernism and surrealism

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples and Pears

This Post-Impressionist still life reduces objects into solid, geometric forms and uses multiple viewpoints.

Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers

This work simplifies the human figure into blocky, architectural forms arranged in a strong composition.

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

This Proto-Cubist painting fractures the female body into sharp planes and mask-like faces influenced by African art.

Georges Braque, Houses at l'Estaque

This early Cubist landscape reduces houses into geometric shapes and flattens space.

Pablo Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier)

An example of Analytic Cubism, this painting breaks the figure into overlapping planes using a muted color palette.

Pablo Picasso, Ma Jolie

This Analytic Cubist work fragments the subject almost to abstraction and incorporates letters into the composition.

Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning

This Synthetic Cubist collage combines painted elements with real materials like oilcloth.

Jacob Lawrence, Ambulance Call

This Harlem Renaissance work uses flat shapes and bold color to depict scenes of everyday Black life.

Aaron Douglas, Aspiration

This Harlem Renaissance mural-style painting uses silhouetted figures, radiating light, and African motifs to symbolize Black progress and hope.

Aaron Douglas, The Judgment Day

This work reinterprets a Christian theme using African American figures and modernist abstraction.

James Van Der Zee, Couple, Harlem

This Harlem Renaissance photograph presents an elegant, carefully staged portrait of a Black couple.

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife...

This Dada photomontage combines mass-media images to critique politics, gender roles, and authority in post-World War I Germany.

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain

This Dada readymade redefines art by presenting a mass-produced urinal as sculpture.

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory

This Surrealist painting depicts melting clocks in a dreamlike landscape, suggesting the instability of time.

Meret Oppenheim, Object

This Surrealist sculpture transforms a teacup by covering it in fur, making it simultaneously familiar and unsettling.

Leonora Carrington, Self-Portrait

This Surrealist self-portrait uses dream imagery and symbolic animals to explore identity and imagination.