Modern Art History: Slide Review & Key Concepts

Comprehensive practice flashcard set covering early 20th-century art history movements, including Fauvism, Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter, Cubism, Austrian Expressionism, Modernist & Expressionist Sculpture, Futurism, Russian Avant-garde, Dada, Ash Can School, and Modernist/Social Documentary Photography.

Sketch for Composition II

Duer Blaue Reiter

Seated Youth

Expressionist sculpture

The Scream

Expressionist

Portrait of Adolf Loos

Austrian Expressionist

Harmony in Red (The Dessert)

Fauvist

La Desserte (Dinner Table)

realism before fauvism

Female Dancer

Die Brücke

The Kiss (Brancusi)

modernist sculpture

The Joy of Life (Le Bonheur de vivre)

Fauvist

Two Nudes

Classical period

Street, Dresden

Die Brücke

Self-Portrait on Her Sixth Wedding Anniversary

Early Expressionist

The Old King

Expressionist/Fauvist

The Burghers of Calais

early modern sculpture

Girl Before a Mirror

Surrealism

Drawing a Nude Model before a Mirror

Austrian Expressionist

Hester Street

Ash Can School

Five Cents a Spot Lodging House, Bayard Street

social documentary photography

Fountain

New York Dada

States of Mind I: The Farewells

Futurism

Linen

Russian Avant-garde

Bull's Head

Surrealist sculpture

Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance

Zurich Dada

The Steerage

Modernist photography

Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany

Berlin Dada

The Last Supper (Nolde)

\Die Brücke Expressionist

Endless Column

Modernist sculpture

Kneeling Woman

Expressionist sculpture

Reliefs (Back I-IV)

modernism

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Cubism

World War I Cavalryman Photograph

A historical photograph documenting the transition from the old world of warfare to modern industrial mechanized slaughter, showing a German cavalryman carrying a traditional lance while wearing a chemical gas mask.

The Large Blue Horses

Duer Blaue Reiter

In The Studio (Brancusi)

modernist scuplture

Music (Matisse)

Fauvism

King of Kings

Modernist sculpture

I am My Wife (The Birthday)

Russian Avant-garde

Adolf the Superman Swallows Gold and Spouts Junk

Berlin Dada

The City Rises

Futurism

Studio with Paper Sculpture (1914)

Cubist sculpture

Portrait of Paris von Gütersloh

Austrian Expressionist

Bottle Rack

New York Dada

Nude Girl (Corinth)

Early Expressionism

The Open Window

Fauvism

Balzac, The Silhouette—4 a.m.

Modernist photography

Luxe, Calme et Volupté

Fauvism

The Spielers

Ash Can School

Morning in the Village after a Snowstorm

Russian Avant-garde

Gloria Swanson

Modernist photography

Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier)

Cubism

The Red Studio

Fauvism

The First Communion

An 1896 traditional academic realist painting executed by Pablo Picasso during his youth in Barcelona.

Fruit Dish and Glass

Cubism

Seated Girl (Fränzi Fehrmann)

Die Brücke

The Avenger

Expressionist sculpture

London Bridge (Derain)

Fauvism

The Tempest (Die Windsbraut)

Austrian Expressionism

The Vampire (Love and Pain)

Expressionism

Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin

Duer Blaue Reiter

Composition VII

Duer Blaue Reiter

Dance (II)

Fauvism

Hairdresser's Window

Ash Can School

Untitled advertising poster (Lengiz)

Russian avante-garde

Père Ubu

Surrealist

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (Leash in Motion)

Futurism

Homage to Apollinaire

Russian Avant-garde

Bicycle Wheel

New York Dada

Fleur Marteau (Hammer Flower)

Zurich Dada

Ranchos de Taos Church, New Mexico

Modernist photography

Torso of a Young Man

Modernist sculpture

The Prophet

Die Brücke

The Beginning of the World

Modernist sculpture

Marcel Duchamp Walking Down Stairs (Elisofon)

A multiple-exposure motion photograph taken in 1952 by Eliot Elisofon capturing Marcel Duchamp descending a staircase, paying homage to his 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase.

Portrait of Derain

Fauvism

Stables

Duer Blaue Reiter

Self-Portrait with Model (Kirchner)

Die Brücke

Turning Road, L'Estaque

Fauvism

Prostitute Before a Mirror

Expressionism/Fauvism

Blanket (Sonia Delaunay)

cubism

Rolling Power

modernist photography

I and the Village

Russian Avant-garde

A Woman's Work

Ash Can School

Street Arabs

social documentary photography

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Futurism

Child in Carolina Cotton Mill

social documentary photography

Gift (Cadeau)

New York Dada

Criss-Cross Conveyers, Ford Plant

Precisionism

Belgian Congo Atrocities Photograph

A historical documentary photograph from 1885–1908 recording two Congolese youths whose hands were severed—one through gangrene from binding during rubber collection, the other severed by colonial forces to fulfill quotas of killed natives.

Little German Christmas Tree

Berlin Dada

Monument to the Third International

Russian Constructivist

Portrait of Madame Matisse / The Green Line

Fauvism

Bird in Space

Modernist sculpture

Family of Saltimbanques

Rose Period

The Newborn

Modernist sculpure

The Dance of Life

Expressionism

Aurelie

Duer Blaue Reiter

Two Women on the Street

Die Brücke

Portrait of Henry van de Velde

Die Brücke

A Man Doing a High Jump

influence on Cubism

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)

New York Dada

Both Members of the Club

Ash Can School