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Impressionism emerges
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Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/end_First_World_War.html
Twentieth Century History book
Google Images
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Sigmund Frued’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” first published.
Freud’s theories of the unconscious, human behaviour and dreams changed the way medicine approached mental illness and the way artists understood and represented the world. -
Albert Einstein publishes four major works
His work on this redefined physics, science and understandings of relativity. It was significant in the development of nuclear physics, rocket science and energy. -
Cubism is developed
Picasso and Braque develop Cubism in Paris and Marinetti launches the Futuristic Manifesto in Italy. -
Expressionism
Vasili Kandinsky and Franz Marc establish Blue Rider, a group of Expressionist artists, in Munich. -
Modernist art movement in Britain; Vorticists
Foundation of English Vorticist Movement by Percy Wyndham Lewis, London. -
First world war commences
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Dunchamp produces first Dadaist paintings
Dadaism is an anti- art movement with a style that emphasised the absurd, illogical and bizarre in art. -
Constructivism
Russian revolution and the emergence of constructivism. Constructivism was associated with Bolshevism and focused on the education on the masses and creation of the socialist system. -
First world war ends
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Dada exhibition
First International DADA Exhibition in Berlin is held. -
Surrealism launched by Andre Brenton, Paris.
Surrealism endeavoured to represent the unconcious. -
The Great Gatsby
F.Scott Fitgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. -
New objectivity exhibition in Germany.
Bauhaus (museum) established in Dessau. -
First talking picture
Metropolis is a German expressionist science-fiction film. -
War Memoirs
Start of great depression &publication of number of first world war memoirs and novels in Britain and Germany. -
Architecture exhibition
International style architecture exhibition is held in London. Stalin endorses socialist realism as official style of the soviet union. -
Nazi come to power in Germany,
Bauhaus is closed due to Nazi opposition and there is an establishment of national socialist style in the arts. -
Social realism only
Social realism deemed the only allowable art form in the soviet union. -
Guernica
Picasso paints Guernica in response to bombing of the city by Germany. -
Second World War commences
