Constantin Brancusi, a Romanian-born artist made sculptures that explored the idea of abstraction. In the center is Mademoiselle Pogany; the bronze is dated 1913. It was actually a portrait of a friend of his, Margit Pogany, a young...

Giorgio deChirico's 1913 painting, "The Anxious Journey." was a breakthrough year for Giorgio deChirico. In October of 1913, a critic and champion of Avent Garde art, Guillaume Apollinaire wrote about his experience of deChirico's...

Books played a major role in 1913. Some books were hand-colorized by the artist, so each is unique, propose just a different relationship between text and images. Olga Rozanova is one of the artists who pioneered this new use of books....

1913 was a banner year for Leger. It was the year in which he figured out how to become a Leger instead of a follower of Picasso or Braque. He did a large series of paintings entitled "Contrast of Form". Each of these examined the ways...

In 1913 you begin to see the dawn of the narrative film with a film suspense directed by Louis Weber and Phillip Smalley. It's the story of a young mother who lives in a very remote area in a home that is also managed by their housemaid....

This video [2:16] is "Young Couple," a lithograph from 1913 by Emil Nolde. He is known as one of the leading expressionists, a loose group of artists working mostly in Germany in the early 1900s and 1910s. They worked to heighten the...

Leopold Survage created a series called Colored Rhythm; he had this idea about making an abstract film this idea that survives himself said to throw off paintings last shackle and that is immobility, making painting move. He chose a very...

This video [1:48] discusses the silent film "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" was made in 1913, directed by Mack Sennett, and is your quintessential chase film. This film has every single comedy chase trope that you could ever want; So...

In this video [2:28] learn how Marcel Duchamp re-conceived a standard unit of measure. Duchamp decided, "Painting is dead. I'm going to turn to different things." 1913 was the year that Duchamp made his first ready made by putting an...

In this video [2:14] discover how Piet Mondrian explored center and periphery in his pioneering abstraction that emerges in cubism and to regularize it as a grid. He works from his sketchbook images of the motif of trees, and the...

This video [2:05] discusses a poster from 1913 designed and printed in Amsterdam by Louis Raemaekers. This is a dramatic use of very simple means, two colors lithographically printed, a new integrative approach to the combination of...

In this video [2:21] you walk the streets of 1913 Berlin with the Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

In this video [2:38] learn about Matisse's search for essential form in The Blue Window. Created by The Museum of Modern Art.

In this video [1:55] discover how advertising, machinery and U-boats intersect on the eve of WWI. Schiess-Dusseldorf is a poster lithographically printed in Munich; it advertises the machine tools produced by Schiess, the main supplier...

In this video [3:55] learn how Franz Kline turned small sketches done on the pages of a phone book into large, gestural abstractions.

This video [3:11] discusses the importance of the two factors of scale and of gesture in abstract expressionism that are exemplified in the paintings of Franz Kline. His paintings are usually with a white background and then either only...

In this video [4:01] learn about the drip-style painting techniques of one of Jackson Pollock, one of America's most iconic and influential painters.

In this video [5:13] this exhibition assembles more than 200 works of Abstract Expressionism art made honest artists in the 40s 50s and 60s; the collection of is located in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In this video [5:37] explore the power of abstraction through Mark Rothko's luminous and introspective paintings. what you have is quiet contemplation, a mood of deep immersion in color. In a Rothko painting, you have three or four zones...

This video [5:13] discusses abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock, who departed from the idea of using a brush and making brush strokes to paint a scene -- and instead, with the wooden tip of the brush, either fling or drip or spread...

In this video [3:02] explore one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most important but least known commissions. In 1913, Frank Lloyd Wright, one of America's great architects, was commissioned to build Midway Gardens, represented in this model, a...

In this video [2:47] Carolee Schneeman describes her piece "Up to and Including Her Limits" as being in discussion with Jackson Pollock. Working with 3/4-inch manila rope in creating an aerial suspended kinetic work, she took off my...

In this video [2:38] a MoMA educator discusses how she teaches 'Collective Suicide' by David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1936.

In this video [2:32] a MoMA educator discusses how he teaches 'To Lift' by Richard Serra, 1967.