Tradition be damned.
1800-1950A mystic search for meaning and psychological truth.
1880-1910Out with the old, in with the sexy.
1890-1910"To every age its art. To art its freedom."
1897-1905"A pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public"
1900-1910Realism as a weapon
1900-1950A more authentic, anxious, and grotesque reality
1905-1933Blood, speed and violence.
1909-1944"We only wanted to express what was in us..."
1910-1930Taking refuge in the square.
1913-1924Dada is anti-dada!
1916-1924The art of the perfectly straight line
1917-1931Art should only serve society.
1919-1935Geometry, ornamentation, and lots and lots of money
1920-1940Art created without reason, aesthetics or morality.
1924-1965Colonialism vs Tradition
1925-1981For those who didn't like the Modern.
1940-It's not a picture, it's an event
1940-1960What you see is what you see
1950-2000