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Date |
Modern Art Events
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World |
United
States |
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1880-1900 |
1880: Rodin receives a commission for the Gates
of Hell.
1881: Pablo Picasso born in Málaga, Spain. |
1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies
vaccine
1888 Van Gogh cuts off left ear
1889 Eiffel
Tower opens commemorating the French Revolution |
1880 Thomas Edison patents the electric incandescent
lamp
1883 Brooklyn
Bridge completed
1890 Battle of Wounded Knee occurs, the last major
battle between Native Americans and the US
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1901-1910 |
1905 Fauve exhibition opens
1907 Picasso, Braque, Matisse and other artists
discover the power of African art, Picasso and Braque develop Cubism.
1907 Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery 291 exhibits
many European avant-garde artists. |
1900 Freud publishes The
Interpretation of Dreams.
1901 Peace of Peking ends Boxer Rebellion in China
1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radioactive
element radium |
1901 Pres. William McKinley assassinated
1903 Wright Brothers make first flight at Kittyhawk
1908 Henry Ford introduces Model T
1909 Indianapolis
500 race track opens |
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1911-1920 |
1911 Der Blaue Reiter group form in Munich
1913 Duchamp makes his first “ready-made”
in Paris. |
1912 Titanic sinks off the coast of Newfoundland
1914 Archduke Ferdinand of Austria
and wife assassinated in Sarajevo, beginning of WWI |
1914 World War I begins
1917 US declares war on Germany in WWI
1929 U.S.
women win the right to vote. |
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1913 The Armory Show opens exhibiting a substantial
collection of modern art to America.
1916 The Dada art movement is created in Zurich, Switzerland.
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1914 Panama Canal
officially opens
1917 Russian Revolution
1920 League of Nations holds its first meeting in
Geneva |
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1921-1930 |
1924 Breton publishes his first Surrealist manifesto
in Paris
1928 Buñuel and Dalí produce the film Un Chien
Andalou
1928 First complete talking film created |
1922 Mussolini takes power in Italy.
1925 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
1928 Alexander Fleming discovers
penicillin. |
1927 Charles A. Lindberg completes the first solo
non-stop flight across the Atlantic
1928 Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly across
the Atlantic
1929 Stock Market crashes/ Great Depression begins
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1931-1940 |
1931 The first big Surrealist exhibition is shown
in the United State.
1935 WPA, formed under Roosevelt’s
New Deal, employs artists to decorate public buildings and parks
1937 Picasso paints Guernica, a reaction to the Spanish Civil War |
1936 Spanish Civil War
1937 George VI crowned King of England
1936 Hitler sends troops to Rhineland
1938 Kristallnacht -- Nazis destroy Jewish synagogues
throughout Germany and Austria
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1931 Empire
State Building opens
1933 FDR inaugurated as 32nd President, prohibition
ends
1936 Jesse Owens sets a new long jump record of
26’8”
1939 Al Capone freed from Alcatraz
prison |
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1941-1950 |
1943 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes |
1941 Japan
bombs Pearl Harbor, |
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1941 Breton and Ernst emigrate to the United States
1946 Jackson Pollock takes the canvas off the easel
and onto the floor creating his all over “drip” paintings. |
President of China
1944 US and Allied forces land at Normandy
1945 Yalta Conference takes place with Roosevelt,
Churchill and Stalin
1950 - 53 Korean War |
Hawaii; US declares
war on Germany and Italy
in WWII
1945 30,000 US Marines land on Iwo
Jima, Atomic bomb developed
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to
play major league baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers |
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1951-1960 |
1959 F. L Wright completes the construction of the
Guggenheim Museum in New York |
1953 Scientists identify DNA
1956 The Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after
colliding with the Stockholm
1959 Fidel Castro proclaims himself premier after
overthrowing Batista |
1953 Dr. Salk develops the polio vaccine
1955 Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to move to
the back of the bus
1957 School desegregation law established by Brown
v Board of Education |
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1961-1970 |
Minimalists working in New York.
Pop artists turn to popular culture for artistic
inspiration
1967 Magritte dies before seeing his completed sculptures.
1970 Robert Smithson creates Spiral Jetty, an
environmental artwork on |
1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay
of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Castro
1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany
1964 South
Africa banned from Olympic Games because of |
1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers “I have
a dream...” speech at Lincoln Memorial
1963 Pres. J. F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas
1967 Thurgood Marshall,
first black Supreme Court Justice sworn in |
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the Great Salt Lake.
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Apartheid policies
1964 - 75 Vietnam War |
1969 Neil Armstrong makes first step on the moon
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1971-1980 |
1972 J. Utzon completes the construction of the
Sydney Opera House
1974-79 Judy Chicago creates The Dinner Party,
the first large scale collaborative feminist work of art.
1975 - 80 Piazza d’Italia constructed in New Orleans, heralding postmodernism. |
1971 China
joins the United
Nations.
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes
first female British Prime Minister
1979 Mother Teresa awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1974 Richard Nixon resigns from presidency; Gerald
Ford becomes 38th President
1977 Apple II, the first personal computer, goes
on sale
1980 John Lennon shot and killed in NYC |
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1980-2003 |
1989-1992 Controversial works by Andres Serrano,
Robert Mapplethorpe and others raise First Amendment issues of censorship in the U.S.
1993 NOMA reopens after a large expansion project,
Spiritgates are installed shortly after the opening
2003 Bestoff
Sculpture Garden opens in City Park |
1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer
1990 The Berlin
Wall comes down
1992 Soviet Union
dissolved
1994 Church of England approved ordaining women
as priests |
1982 Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C.
1984 AIDS virus is identified
1986 Space Shuttle Challenger 10 explodes 73 seconds
after lift-off
1991 Gulf War Ends |
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