Visual Arts

ICA Philadelphia: The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

MOMA online exhibitions (1929-present)

“Cubism and Abstract Art,” Alfred Barr (MOMA, 1936)

Avant garde (khanacademy)

• Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism
• Expressionism to Pop Art
• Art Between the Wars

France

• Gustave Courbet, “The Stone Breakers” (1849-50)”, “A Burial at Ornans” (1850), “The Painter’s Studio” (1855
• Edouard Manet, “Olympia” (1863),  “Le déjeuner sur l’herbe” (1862-63), Complete Works
• Claude Monet, “Impression, Sunrise” (1872)
• Paul Cezanne, “The Bay of Marseilles, Seen from L’Estaque” (1885)
• Georges Seurat, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” (1884-86)
• Henri Rouseau, “Carnival Evening” (1886)
• Pablo Picasso, “Les demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) at MOMA
• Georges Braque “Houses at Estaque” (1908); “Viaduct at l’Estaque“(1908)
• Marcel Duchamp, “Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)” (1912), Works at MOMA

The Netherlands

• Wasily Kandinski, “Study for Composition II” (1910), Untitled [first abstract watercolor] (1910), “Improvisation 7” (1910), The Path to Abstraction (Tate, London)

Italy

• F. T. Marinetti, “Futurist Manifesto” (1909)

Russia

• Mikhail Larionov, “Blue Rayonism” (1912)
• Kazemir Malevich, “Black Square” (1915, tate.org), Five Ways to Look at Malevich’s “Black Square” (tate.org),  “Suprematist Composition: White on White” (1918)
• CONSTRUCTIVISM
  • Vladimir Tatlin, “Monument to the Third [Communist] International” (1920), at wiki
  • agitprop panel (1920)
  • Varvara Stepanova, “Constructivist Clothes Design” (1923)
  • Alexander Rodchenko, “Constructivist Clothes Design” (1925)
• SOCIALIST REALISM
  • artinrussia.org

Netherlands

• Theo Van Doesburg
  • Van Doesburg and the international Avant-Garde (Tate Modern, London)
  • MOMA collection
    • de Stijl (magazine)

DADA

• Artists’ Response to WWI (Cabaret Voltaire)
• Dada at the Tate (including interview with Duchamp)
• Dada at MOMA

SURREALISM

• Oxford Art Online
• Surrealism at MOMA (at MOMA Learning)
• Andre Breton at MOMA
• René Magritte at MOMA

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

• Guggenheim Museum
  • at The Guggenheim
  • Download art books from the Guggenheim Museum
• theartstory.org (timelines, bios)
• smarthistory (multimedia)
• Abstract Expressionism (artcyclopedia)
• MOMA
  • online exhibitions (1929-present)
  • Inventing Abstraction (1910-1925)
  • Abstract Expressionist New York
• Jackson Pollock
  • “Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?” (Life, 8/8/49)
  • Pollock 51 (documentary)
  • Jackson Pollock at MOMA
  • Jackson Pollack. One: Number 31. 1950.
  • Jackson Pollock. White Light. 1954. (Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz album cover)
• Irascible Group (Life, 1/15/51)
• Robert Rauschenberg
  • Rauschenberg Research Project (SFMOMA)
  • Rauschenberg’s White Painting, 1951 (at SFMOMA)
  • Rauschenberg on his “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (at SFMOMA)
• Abstract Expressionism

MET Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

• Seurat and Neo-Impressionism, Cubism, The Bauhuas (1919-1933), Surrealism, Photography and Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism

Bob Thompson, Garden of Music (1960)

• Bob Thompson, This House is Mine (Colby College Museum of Art exhibition)
• Sonny Rollins on Thompson (2022)

  • Object Chat: Bob Thompson’s “Homage to Nina Simone”

FILM

• Hans Richter, “Rhythmus 21” (1921)
• Viking Eggeling, “Diagonal Symphony” (1924)