Art Terms Modern Art - Hatje Cantz

1914 - ARTISTS AT WAR

The First World War left its mark on the work of numerous artists; the shock before the trembling of the world led them to poignant new themes and radically new artistic concepts.

NEW OBJECTIVITY

With their paintings, they reacted to the traumatic experience of the First World War and a world that had come apart at the seams: the artists of New Objectivity.

SCANDINAVIAN ART AROUND 1900

It was not until the 19th century that an independent art scene developed in the northern European countries. Edvard Munch is Scandinavia's best-known artist. Many of his contemporaries have been rediscovered only in recent years.

EXPRESSIONISM

Expressionism as an art of mental expression: images of reality represented as abstraction with strong colors. However, the Expressionists were not overthrowers of the social system, their revolution was mainly the formal means of art, the free play of colors and shapes.

CUBISM

The art movement that develops at the beginning of the 20th century, especially in France, marks the beginning of abstract and non-objective art: cubism.

BRÜCKE

On June 7, 1905, four young Dresden students founded the artist group "Brücke". Their goal was to find new forms of pictorial expression with wild strokes and ecstatic colors. German Expressionism was born.

DADA

In their rebellion against bourgeois artistic standards, they favored incomprehensible and often shocking artistic procedures: the Dadaists, who questioned the classical concept of art more fundamentally than any movement before them.

READYMADE

Plaything of Dadaism and the Surrealists, icon for Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme and Conceptual Art: the Readymades, inseparable from Marcel Duchamp, revolutionized the concept of art and the understanding of art.