Identify and describe key characteristics and defining events of art from 1900 to the present

Learning Activities

The learning activities for this section include:

• Reading: Cubism and Picasso’s Still Life with Chair Caning
• Video: Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913, Abstract Expressionism
• Reading: British Art and Literature During WWI
• Reading: Italian Futurism: An Introduction
• Reading: Dada and Surrealism
• Reading: Art in Nazi Germany
• Reading: The Origins of Abstract Expressionism
• Reading: Photography
• Reading: Contemporary Art
• Reading: Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe
• Reading: Conceptual Art
• Reading: Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document
• Reading: Appropriation (The “Pictures Generation”)

Take time to review and reflect on each of these activities in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.