The Mouseion · The Long Century · New Worlds 1900–1930

New Worlds 1900–1930

Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and the first abstract paintings. In thirty years art broke with five centuries of looking through a window, and the twentieth century began.

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On the walls this month

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  Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) — Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944), 1913, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Seated Woman from the Front with Hat, Face Hooded — Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), 1910, Graphite, with colored pencil, on ivory wove paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Portrait of a Woman — Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), c. 1917/19, Oil on cardboard
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Water Lilies — Claude Monet (1840–1926), 1906, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Bedroom — Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), 1889, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Caryatid: Rose and Blue — Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), 1912–14, Watercolor, with pen and black ink, graphite, and touches of brown crayon on tan wove paper (pieced), laid down on tan wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Portrait of Edouard Molé — Robert Nanteuil (1623–1678), 1653, Engraving on paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Paris Street; Rainy Day — Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894), 1877, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Martin Vanden Bogaert Desjardins — Gérard Edelinck (1659–1743), n.d., Engraving and etching on cream wove paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Bull — Franz Marc (1880–1916), 1912, Woodcut on ivory wove Japanese paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Landscape with Two Poplars — Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944), 1912, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Poster for Die Brücke — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), 1907, Lithograph in green and gold on paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Man's Head with Nude — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), 1908, Lithograph in black on white wove paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Souvenir of Tuscany — Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796–1875), c. 1845, Etching on ivory laid paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Painting with Green Center — Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944), 1913, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  It Rocks but is Not Sunk — Charles Meryon (1821–1868), 1854, Etching on ivory laid paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884 — Georges Seurat (1859–1891), 1884–86, border added 1888–89, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz — Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), 1916, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Caryatid — Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), c. 1913, Watercolor, over graphite on buff wove paper, laid down on tan wove paper, laid down on cream wove card
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Portrait of Napoleon III (1808–1873), Emperor — Marc-Laurent Bruyas (1821–1896), 19th century, Silk, warp faced weft ribbed plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground wefts; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Fishing Craft near the Cliffs at Collioure — Adolphe Appian (1818–1898), 1878, Etching on China paper colle laid down on white wove paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Geese in a Farmyard — Jean François Millet (1814–1875), c. 1871, Black crayon, on ivory wove paper (discolored to tan), laid down on white laid paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Fall of the Giants — Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), 1663, Etching with drypoint in black on ivory laid paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Male Nude — Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), January 29, 1880, Various graphite pencils, with erasing and stumping, on cream laid paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Male Nude with Left Foot on a Pedestal — Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), 1879, Graphite and white heightening on brown wove paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Portrait of Vallin — Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), 1918, Graphite on cream wove paper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Houses at Murnau — Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944), 1909, Oil on cardboard
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Bewitched Mill — Franz Marc (1880–1916), 1913, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Fête de Saint Marc, Venise — Félix Ziem (1821–1911), 1870–90, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago

More of The Long Century

• Romanticism & Realism — Storms, ruins, mountains and the sublime, then a turn to the real: peasants, labourers and the people painters passed…
• Impressionism — Painting outdoors, fast, in broken colour: Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Morisot, Degas and Cassatt caught the light of a…
• After Impressionism — Van Gogh’s brushwork, Cézanne’s solid geometry, Gauguin’s flat colour, Seurat’s dots, and the dreamlike Symbolists…

Where the works come from

Every work in the Mouseion is a real piece, out of copyright everywhere, shown from the open collections of the museums that hold it — each label names the original’s museum and links to its page there.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access
• The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain collection
• The Cleveland Museum of Art — Open Access
• Wikimedia Commons — public-domain photographs of works held elsewhere