Hannah Hoch, Cut with a Kitchen Knife
1919-20 Dadaism
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
1917 Dadaism
Max Ernst, The Horde
1927 Dadaism
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory
1931 Surrealism
Meret Oppenheim, Object (Luncheon in Fur)
1936 Surrealism
Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick C. Robie House
Chicago, IL 1906-09
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna
1924
Grant Wood, American Gothic
1930 Regionalism
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
1936
Aaron Douglas, Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery through Reconstruction
1934 Harlem Renaissance
Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
1950 Abstract Expressionism
Mark Rothko, No. 61, Brown, Blue, Brown on Blue
1953 Abstract Expressionism
Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea
1952 Post-Painterly Abstraction
Eero Saarinen, Trans World Airlines Terminal, JFK Airport
1956-62 International Style
Alison Knowles, Make a Salad
1962 Fluxus
Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon
1959 Neo-Dada
Roy Lichtenstein, Oh, Jeff ... I love you, too ... But ...
1964 Pop Art
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych
1962 Pop Art
Donald Judd, Untitled
1967 Minimalism
Eva Hesse Untitled (Rope Piece)
1970 Post-Minimalism
Lawrence Weiner, A 36" x 36" Removal to the Lathing or Support Wall of Plaster or Wallboard from a Wall
1968 Conceptual Art
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
1969-70 Land Art
Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima
1972 Feminist Art
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
1974-79 Feminist Art
Guerrilla Girls, Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the Met?
1988 Feminist Art
Frank O. Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
1993-97 Postmodernism
Daniel Libeskind, The Jewish Museum, Berlin
1989-99 Postmodernism
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Horn Players
1983 Postmodernism
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21
1978 Postmodernism
Richard Serra, Titled Arc
1981 Public Art
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1981-83
Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman, Concerto for TV, Cello, and Videotapes
1971 Video Art
photomontage
a montage constructed from photographic images.
readymade
everyday object selected and designated as art; the name was coined by the French artist Marcel Duchamp.
Automatism
the avoidance of conscious intention in producing works of art, especially by using mechanical techniques or subconscious associations.
the unconscious
the unconscious mind is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that outside of our conscious awareness.
Prairie Style
Prairie School style architecture is usually marked by its integration with the surrounding landscape, horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad eaves, windows assembled in horizontal bands, solid construction, craftsmanship, and restraint in the
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later.
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract expressionism is a post-World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art
art brut
Art brut is a French term that translates as 'raw art', invented by the French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art such as graffiti or na�ve art which is made outside the academic tradition of fine art.
Medium-specificity
Medium specificity is a principle in aesthetics and art criticism. Clement Greenberg believed that "the unique and proper area of competence" for a form of art corresponds with the ability of an artist to manipulate those features that are "unique to the
Fluxus
Fluxus's spirit of rebellion against the commercial art market, elitism, and the conventions of both art and society had its roots in Dada, Futurism, and Surrealism, while its irreverence and youthful energy were in tune with the burgeoning counterculture
Avant-Garde
The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society.
Event Score (Fluxus)
An event score, such as George Brecht's "Drip Music", is essentially a performance art script that is usually only a few lines long and consists of descriptions of actions to be performed rather than dialogue.
Installation
Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.
Site Specific
Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork.
identity
Identity is the way we perceive and express ourselves. Factors and conditions that an individual is born with�such as ethnic heritage, sex, or one's body�often play a role in defining one's identity. However, many aspects of a person's identity change thr
Appropriation
Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts).
Postmodernism
Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as intermedia, installation art, conceptual art and multimedia, particular
Deconstructivism
A term used to describe a tendency in architecture that began in the 1980s and rejected the basic premises of modern architecture.