Who killed modern art

I am on the hunt for the History of Modern Art…Where did it begin?

What events caused it to happen?Who are the major players?

What does it look like? 

Help me map out a timeline of events and evidence to solve this crime!

TIMELINE OF MODERNSIM

BREAKING NEWS

Salon De Refuse

An uproar occurred in 1863, following the rejection by the Salon Jury of an unusually high number (3,000) of submitted paintings, including Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (1863) by Edouard Manet, and works by Whistler, Cezanne, and Camille Pissarro. To pacify the critics and "to let the public judge the legitimacy of these complaints", the French Emperor Napoleon III ordered that painters whose works had been rejected by the Salon Jury could exhibit their works in a show adjacent to the Salon. The show became known as the Salon des Refuses (exhibition of rejects), a name subsequently applied to any exhibition of artworks rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, notably shows in in 1874, 1875, and 1886. Although in 1863 the rejected works were subjected to greater criticism by the art critics, the very existence of this 'alternative' exhibition undermined the exclusivity of the official Salon. Henceforth, artists began organizing their own shows (notably the Impressionists in the 1870s and 1880s), and many art historians date the beginning of Modern Art to the first Salon des Refuses.

REFERENCE: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/salon-paris.htm#salondesrefuses

BREAKING NEWS

Realism

Gustave Courbet, The Stonebreakers (late 18th century)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CvKV_tr_Q

BREAKING NEWS

Impressionism

Renoir, Dance at le Moulin de la Galette Montemarte, 1876

Impressionism

Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral-Harmony in Blue, 1893

Neo - Impressionism

Georges Seurat, Bathers at Asnières, 1884

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BSdUjWpN0Q&feature=related

Post - Impressionism

Van Gogh, Mountains at St. Rèmy, 1889

Post - Impressionism

Cezanne, Still Life: Flask, Glass and Jug, 1877

BREAKING NEWS

Fauvism

Andre Derain, Bridge over the Riou, 1906

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Red-Studio.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1AaJ_pw8i4

BREAKING NEWS

Primitivism

Picasso, Les Demoiselle d´Avignon, 1907

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUnPJHif8U

Primitivism

Paul Gauguin, The Moon and the Earth, 1893

BREAKING NEWS

Expressionism

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Artillerymen, 1915

http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Expressionism.html

Expressionism

Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28, 1912

BREAKING NEWS

Cubism

Georges Braque, Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Mantelpiece, 1911

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ1zcViAUBc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHmeRiR5s_U&feature=related

http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/audio/142

BREAKING NEWS

Futurism

Giacomo Balla, Speeding Automobile, 1912

Futurism

Giacomo Balla, Dog on Leash, 1912

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY8kVa0qB9Q

BREAKING NEWS

Dadaism

Kurt Schwitters, Merz 163, with woman sweating, 1920

Dadaism

Duchamp, LHOOQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqkIJ0odFxA&feature=related

BREAKING NEWS

De Stijl

Piet Mondrian, Composition, 1930

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Surrealism

Max Ernst, Attirement of the Bride, 1940

Surrealism

Salvidor Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFn4UmkBcaQ

BREAKING NEWS

Abstract Expressionism

Mark Rothko,

Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red), 1949

Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1949ish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVE-WQBcYQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2C8ziyOWR8

http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/250

BREAKING NEWS

Minimalism

Dan Flavin,

Monument for V.Tatlin, 1966-69

AND THEN…?