How Did Art Change Throughout The 20th Century

The 20th Century was a time period full of excitement, sorrow, joy, loss, and many different events. In the aspect of art, many pieces were made throughout the time period, filled with complexity, styled with different techniques, and mostly inspired from past experiences or emotions. Some pieces of art were realistic, while others followed the Cubistic style with a variety of colors and lines. Each praised artist had come from different walks of life and from cities across the world. Throughout the 20th Century, multiple exemplementry art has emerged with different intricacy and variety of approaches, giving the viewer a different standpoint in the artist's life or event. The 1900 decade started with chaos and tragedy as the Galveston hurricane

Within the first five years, William McKinley was assassinated, the first World Series was held, and the World Fair was held in St. Louis. But within the art community, many masterpieces were being made. A fascinating oil on canvas piece Open Window Collioure was created, and was made an “icon of early modernism” (National Gallery of Art).The painting was made by Henri Matisse who “...was known as the Fauvists leader in the press, and called “chief fauve” by Louis Vauxcelles and other critics” (The Art Story). Matisse did not grow up painting: “He grew up in Bohain-en-vermandois and went to school at the college de Saint Quentin, before moving back to Paris to study law. Later that year he contracted appendicitis….during that time, at age 20, he discovered the welcome isolation and freedom of painting” (The Art Story). Seven years after his appendicitis, Matisse produced the beautiful piece Open Window Collioure. “It was painted in Collioure, a small town on the Mediterranean coast of France to which Matisse traveled...in the summer of 1905” (National Gallery of Art). “Open Window was exhibited at the landmark Salon d’automne of

These were all events which have highlighted the 1910 decade. George Braque had his big breakthrough in 1913 by his creation Fruit Dish and Cards, a piece made with “oil, pencil, and charcoal on canvas” (De La Croix,Tansey, KirkPatrick 962). “Braque’s earliest paintings were made in fauvist style . From 1902-1905… he pursued Fauvist ideas and coordinated with Henri Matisse”(The Art Story). Braque used more strong colors and shapes to paint instead of making his work with realistic representation or values. “In 1912, Cubism entered a new phase during which the style no longer relied on a decipherable relation to the visible world. In this new phase, called synthetic cubism, paintings and drawings were constructed from objects and shapes cut out from paper or other materials to represent parts of a subject” (de la Croix, Tansey, KirkPatrick 962).In Synthetic Cubism, it focused more on a collage type of style, and focused less on making objects appear realistic to that in real life but more of the whole object made from parts of different kinds of media. “The wonderful new possibilities offered by collage can be seen in Braques Fruit Dish and Cards, done in a variant of collage called papier colle, in which assorted paper shapes are glued to a drawing or painting” (delaCroix, Tansey, KirkPatrick 963). The way which Braque used different