What is "modern"?

 MODERN ART

19th Century Realism

GUSTAV FLAUBERT

MADAME BOVARY 1857

ENGLAND

CHARLES DICKENS

GEORGE ELIOT

MIDDLEMARCH 1871

RUSSIA

LEO TOLSTOY

WAR AND PEACE 1864-1869

ANNA KARENINA 1873-1876

19th Century Realism: Painting

Gustave Courbet 1819-1877

• Burial at Ornans (1849)

Eduard Manet 1832-1883

• The Bar at the Folies-Bergere (1881)

MODERNISM IN ART. 1860-1930

Impressionism 1860-1886

• France
• Light
• Impressionist Exhibit 1874

Claude Monet 1840-1926

• Impression: sunrise
• Water Lilies 1903-1906
• House of Parliament 1871,1904,1905

Post-Impressionism 1886-1910

Symbolic Reality

Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890

• Starry Night 1889
• Self-Portrait 1888

Paul Gaugin 1848-1903

• The Vision After the Sermon 1888
• La Orana Maria 1891

Geometric Forms

Paul Cezanne 1839-1906

• Apples, Peaches, Pears and Grapes 1880
• Mont Saint-Victoire 1902

Cubism

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

• Les Demoiselles D'Avignon 1907
• Three Musicians 1921

Abstraction

Vasili Kandinski 1866-1944

Piet Mondrian 1872-1944

• Broadway Boogie Woogie 1942

Jackson Pollock 1912-1956 

• Mural 1943

Fantasy

Marc Chagall 1887-1985

• I and the Village 1911

Salvador Dali 1904-1989

• The Persistence of Memory 1931
• (Surrealism)

Anti-Modern Art

• Nazi

Adolf Wissel

Farm Family from Kahlenberg 1939

• Soviet

V. N Yakolev

Construction Workers Writing a Letter to Stalin 1937

Midwestern

Grant Wood 1891-1942

• Stone City 1930
• American Gothic 1930

Anti-Modernism at the University of Iowa

Modern Architecture

Louis Sullivan 1856-1924

• "Form Follows Function"
• Wainwright Building, St. Louis 1891
• "Chicago School"

Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959

• Prairie Style
• Fallling Water

The Bauhaus 1919-1933

• Walter Gropius--Germany
• Architecture--Modern Art--Design
• Burge Hall