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The Wright Brothers flew in their plane for the first time.
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Cubism was focused on the multiple ways in which one sees and object and sought to represent these in a single painting which was fractured and shattered. These artists used subdued colors focusing on cube shapes. Dada was a reaction against the recent destructive war and sought to embrace the irrational among other different concepts in its work. Futurism embraced modern technology and attempted to show speed, which it had an affinity for, in its work.
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The Futurist Manifesto embraced new, fast, modern life and emphasized war, speed and exhiliration in a new way of life and time period.
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PABLO PICASSO, Still Life with Chair-Caning, 1912. Oil and oilcloth on canvas
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World War I broke out and profoundly changed the structure of Europe and of art and artists.
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GINO SEVERINI, Armored Train, 1915. Oil on canvas
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Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919, pencil on reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.