Modern Art
1863 – 197254 items
artpaintingFrom the Salon des Refusés to Pop Art
In May 1863 Paris laughed at the paintings its official Salon had turned away. A century later a Los Angeles gallery hung thirty-two soup cans on a shelf. In between, painters in Paris, Dresden, Munich, Milan, Zurich, Leiden, Weimar, Mexico City, São Paulo, New York, London and Ashiya kept founding movements, writing manifestos and staging shows meant to offend.
Movements are conventions
A movement has no birthday. Each band here starts and ends where a named authority puts it, usually Tate’s glossary, or at a dated event such as a first exhibition or a death, and each band’s notes say which. The bands overlap because the movements did: in 1912 Paris had Cubists, Milan had Futurists and Munich had the Blue Rider, all at once. Drawing modern art this way is itself an old idea: in 1936 Alfred Barr of the Museum of Modern Art put a chart of arrows and dates on the cover of Cubism and Abstract Art.
One date is in the Julian calendar: Malevich’s Black Square was first shown in Petrograd on what Russia, still on the old calendar, called 19 December 1915. Timescrolly places it on 1 January 1916 in our reckoning.
How it is laid out
Periods: fifteen movements and schools from Impressionism to Pop, plus short bands for shows that ran for weeks, such as the Armory Show and the Nazis’ “Degenerate Art”.
Threads to filter by:
exhibitions,manifestos,abstraction,women,warandglobal modernism.The map: single galleries and studios where they are known, from Montmartre and the Spiegelgasse to La Cienega Boulevard, with Mexico City, São Paulo, Tahiti and Japan beyond the usual Paris–New York axis.
“On or about December 1910 human character changed.” — Virginia Woolf, “Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown”, 1924, looking back at the first Post-Impressionist show in London
Items
The Salon des Refusés opens
Japan exhibits at the Paris Exposition Universelle
The first Impressionist exhibition
A critic’s joke names the Impressionists
Seurat’s Grande Jatte at the last Impressionist show
Van Gogh paints The Starry Night
Gauguin arrives in Tahiti
Munch paints The Scream
The Vienna Secession breaks away
The “wild beasts” at the Salon d’Automne
Hilma af Klint begins the Paintings for the Temple
Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
“Little cubes”: Braque shows at Kahnweiler’s
Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto in Le Figaro
Manet and the Post-Impressionists opens in London
The first Blue Rider exhibition
Malevich shows the Black Square
The Cabaret Voltaire opens
Fountain is refused by the Independents
Gropius opens the Bauhaus in Weimar
Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism
The Bauhaus building in Dessau opens
The Cannibalist Manifesto
The Museum of Modern Art opens
Dalí paints The Persistence of Memory
The Bauhaus closes
Rockefeller Center destroys Rivera’s mural
Barr’s Cubism and Abstract Art
Guernica is unveiled in the Spanish pavilion
Peggy Guggenheim opens Art of This Century
Pollock’s first drip paintings
Shiraga’s Challenging Mud
This Is Tomorrow at the Whitechapel
Jasper Johns’s first solo show
Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans at the Ferus Gallery
The New Realists at Sidney Janis