1860–1969
Art, design and architecture from about 1860 to 1970, the span of modernism from Manet and Impressionism to Pop and Minimalism.
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This broad span covers the modern period, from the first open challenges to academic painting to the end of the 1960s. In Paris, Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) and the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 began a long run of movements, each questioning the last: Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism. Auguste Rodin broke with polished academic sculpture, Käthe Kollwitz turned printmaking to social protest, and René Magritte and Joan Miró explored dream imagery between the wars.
Design changed as much as painting. Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus and modernist architecture rethought objects and buildings for industrial production, and fashion shifted with Paul Poiret's corset-free dresses and Gabrielle Chanel's jersey suits. Modernism also took root far from Paris, in Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico, the Mexican muralists and Tarsila do Amaral's Brazil. After 1945 New York produced Abstract Expressionism, and the 1960s closed the span with Pop Art and Minimalism.
