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Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine across five issues in 1998 and 1999. The idea for such a list started on February 1, 1998, with a debate at a symposium in Hanoi , Vietnam .
Dadaism preceded Surrealism, where the theories of Freudian psychology led to the depiction of the dream and the unconscious in art in work by Salvador Dalí. Kandinsky's introduction of non-representational art preceded the 1950s American Abstract Expressionist school, including Jackson Pollock, who dripped paint onto the canvas, and Mark Rothko, who created large areas of flat colour.
American realism was a movement in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century.
Henri Matisse, The Dance I, 1909, Museum of Modern Art.One of the cornerstones of 20th-century modern art.. 20th-century Western painting begins with the heritage of late-19th-century painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others who were essential for the development of modern art.
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch: [ˈpitər kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈmɔndrijaːn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian (/ p iː t ˈ m ɒ n d r i ɑː n /, US also /-ˈ m ɔː n-/, Dutch: [pit ˈmɔndrijɑn]), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
Family quotes from famous people. 11. “In America, there are two classes of travel—first class and with children.” —Robert Benchley (July 1934) 12. “There is no such thing as fun for the ...
American Gothic is a 1930 oil on beaverwood painting by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood.Depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century and is frequently referenced in popular culture.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century African-American artists and Category:20th-century American male artists and Category:20th-century Native American artists and Category:20th-century American women artists The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.