Modern Thought Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious: Modern Art: Modern Literature: Modern Music:

Brancusi, Bird in Space, 1923 (SmarthistoryMina Loy, "Brancusi's Golden Bird" Golden Bird, 1919/1920

Munch, The Scream (1893) (Smarthistory)


Rousseau, Sleeping Gypsy (1897)


Banquet Douanier Rousseau (1908) (Smart Set)


Henri Rousseau, Portrait Landscape (1890)


Picasso,  Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) (Smarthistory)


Klimt,  The Kiss  (1907-08) (Smarthistory)

 
Monet, Water Lilies (1906)


Gaudi, Casa Batlo (1906)


Gaudi, Colonia Guell (1916)


Roerich, The Idols (1901)


Picasso, Still Life  with Bowl and Fruit (1912)


Modigliani, Reclining Nude, 1917


Matisse, La Danse (1909)


Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques (1905)

Einstein:

Nietzsche:


Magritte. The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images) (1928–1929)

Freud:

Freud's Famous Couch

Darwin:

Marx:


DeChirico, Melancholy and Mystery of a Street (1913)


Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)


Picasso, Girl w/ Mandolin (1910) 

Cézanne, Still Life with Apples 1895-98
(Smarthistory Essay)
Post-Impressionism:
Fauvism:
Art Deco:

Kirchner, Street in Dresden (1907)

Expressionism:
Naive Primitivism:
Dada:
Surrealism:
Modernisme (Catalan Modernism):

Cubism:


Futurism:

Suprematism:

Constructivism

Vorticism


Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel (1913)


de Chirico,  Mystery and
Melancholy of a Street
  1914.

Decadence:

Beardsley, Salome (1893)

Modernist Fiction:


Pere Ubu from Ubu Roi (1897)
by Alfred Jarry

Modern Drama:



Piasso, Gertrude Stein (1905-06)

Modernist Poetry:


Miro, The Farm (1922)

Loie Fuller, Serpentine Dance (1896)

Silent Film:

Film:

Maximalism:


Sarah Bernhardt in La Dame aux camélias by Alphonse Mucha


Monet, Impression Sunrise (1872)

Impressionism:
 

Primitivism:


Stravinsky, costume design for The Firebird

Stravinsky:

Expressionism:

Neo-Classicism:

Nationalism:

    Braque, The Portguese (1911)

    Boccioni The City Rises (1910)


    Steiglitz, Flatiron Building (1903)


    Flight as seen in 1911 


    Picasso, Girl w/ Mandolin (1910) 

    Freud
    Einstein and Modern Physics:

    Nietzsche:
    Modern Technology:

    • 2198 Getting ready to invent the airplane in 1901 
    • 1867 In which the Wright Brothers invent the airplane propeller 
    • 2223 Charlie Taylor, builder of the Wright brothers' engines
    • 1539 In which a thin layer of fluid determines whether an airplane flies
    • 1271 In which automobiles race around the world in 1906
    • 1362 The first twenty years of transatlantic flights
    • 1951 In which poets explain how the airplane matured
    • 1436 Adding it up in 1910: A book grapples with the coming 20th century
    • 1461 George Everett Hale and BIG telescopes
    • 1473 Two unsinkable ships: the Titanic and the Great Eastern 
    • 2248 Arc lights, glow lamps, incandescant bulbs -- Edison's in there somewhere
    • 1596 Looking for the "first" automobile
    • 1681 The Literary Digest tells us about science in 1904
    • 1724 Looking to nature for our technology in 1906
    • 2066 The Olympic and the Titanic on the day that  ships grew too larger
    • 2112 In which Röntgen struggles to put fact before fame -- not so easy to do  
    • 2217 Escalator: the Not-All-Purpose Magic Stairs

    Imagism:


    Kafka:

    The Banquet Years:

    Modern Drama: