Early 20th c. art: Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism
Expressionism: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) The Scream, oil, pastel, and casein on cardboard, 3’x2’5” (1893) Ashes, oil on canvas, 120x141 cm (1894) Madonna, oil on canvas, 90x71 cm (1894-95) The Murderer on the Lane, oil on canvas (1919)
World War I art: Otto Dix (1891-1959) Der Krieg (The War), oil and tempera on wood, 6’8”x13’4” (1929-1932) Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) Woman with Dead Child (1903) Wilhelm Lehmbruck Seated Youth, plaster, 3’4”x3’9” (1917)
Dada and the “readymade” sculpture: Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) Fountain, Glazed porcelain with black paint, 12” h (1917) The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, oil, wire, foil, dust on glass, 9’x6’ (1915-23) Reproduction of L.H.O.O.Q. (1919) [fr. “elle a chaud au cul”]
Surrealism and Salvador Dali’s “paranoiac-critical method”: Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, oil on canvas, 2’10”x2’4” (1914) Max Ernst (1891-1976) Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale,oil on wood, 2 ’3”hx1’10”wx4½”d (1924) Salvador Dali (1904-1989) The Cosmic Dali (1948) The Lugubrious Game (1929) The Persistence of Memory, oil on canvas, 9 ½” x 13” (1931) Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War, oil on canvas, 43x33” (1936) The Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) Sleep (1937) Shirley Temple, the Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in her Time (1939) Freud’s Perverse Polymorph (Bulgarian Child Eating a Rat) (1939) Temptation of St. Anthony (1946) Christ of St. John of the Cross (1951) Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) The Two Fridas, oil on canvas, 5’7”x5’7” (1939) Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, oil on canvas, 16”x11” (1940) The Little Deer, oil on masonite, 9”x12” (1946) Paul Klee (1879-1940) Twittering machine, watercolour, pen, ink, and oil on paper and cardboard, 2’1”x1’7” (1922) Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) Light Coming on the Plains, watercolor on paper, 12x9” (1917) New York Night, oil on canvas, 3‘4”x1’7” (1929) The Radiator Building at Night - New York, oil on canvas (1927) Jack-in-the-Pulpit No.4, oil on canvas, 3’4”x2’6” (1930) Light Iris (1924) Two Calla Lilies on Pink (1928) Cows Skull with Calico Roses (1932) Summer days (1936)