Modernism (C5)

By sophiecave

  • social protest art + murals

  • Mondrian moves to new york

  • USA enters WW2

  • japan bombs pearl harbour

  • papers of surrealism appear in new york

  • USA bomb Hiroshima

  • Germans Surrender/ end of WW2

  • Pollock develops his "drip technique"

  • abstract expressionism (action painting)

  • colour field/ post-painterly

  • korean war begins

  • Rosenberg coins "action painting"

  • US supreme court outlaws segregation

  • USSR launches sputnik 1

  • pop art