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Modern Art
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I hope that abstraction will be relatively easy for this period, at least until c[irca]1945[ce], given that the major movements have already been identified.**
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1866ff 1st steps to Impressionism in Monet’s coast scenes (EB) |
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1869 Monet & Renoir painting together at La Grenouillère – the decisive development of Impressionism (EB). {...Impressionism founded the new tradition of modern art…. (EB)}(Rodin from c1870s) |
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1914 3rd phase of Cubism – Synthetic Cubism – collage (EB). 1914 Abstract painting increases 1914 Dadaism (on the outbreak of war) attacks art artistically (EB). 1916 Dadaist manifesto 1915 End of Futurism in visual arts |
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Odd that our oppositional legislature is long, towered and Gothic,* whereas more co-operative legislatures seem to tend to be round, domed, and classical.**
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*The Houses of Parliament, London, by Sir Charles Barry and A.W. Pugin; built 1836-64[ce].
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