The Rise of Modernism, Part III: The Fracture of Space and Time

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Artists continue their experiments in visual perception, using the picture plane as their laboratory. The advance of technology offers a promise of a progressive utopia but it will soon become clear that there is also a dark side to the beauty of the machine.

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The Rise of ModernismPart III:

The Fractureof Spaceand Time

Henri Matisse, The Green Stripe (Mme Matisse), 1905

Henri Matisse, Pastoral, 1905

Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1909

Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911

Pablo Picasso, La Vie, 1903

Pablo Picasso, Family of Saltimbanques, 1905

Pablo Picasso, Desmoiselles d' Avignon, 1907

Pablo PicassoDesmoiselles d' Avignon/African Mask Comparison

Pablo Picasso, Ma Jolie, 1911-1912

Georges Braque, The Portugese, 1911

Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912

Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 1912

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Red Cocotte, 1911

Oskar Kokoschka, The Tempest, 1914

Giacomo Balla, Speed of a Motorcycle, 1913

Umberto Boccioni, Charge of the Lancers, 1915

George Grosz, Explosion, 1917

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

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