Early 20th Century Art

In the early twentieth-century the transformative, influential ideas from modern culture and ideas led to an explosion of new, radical, and innovative styles in art. This is when the modern age completes its break away from the 500 year old, artistic dominance of the Renaissance.

This video explores the evolution of art from around the first decade of the 1900s and highlights revolutionary art movements such as Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism and Abstract Art.

Discover how artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi, Kandinsky, Duchamp and others contributed to a new and changing  artistic landscape culminating with the Armory show of 1913 which exposed the United States to the radical new European Modernism.