20s Art

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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF THE 1920S

The establishment of America as a world power in the 1920s was one of the most significant cultural and economic changes since it impacted global relations and the spread of American culture across the globe.

CULTURAL CHANGES

Art was, of course, a mirror of the time that reflected the air of change through movements such as Art Deco, Cubism, and Surrealism.

ART

INFLUENTIAL ART MOVEMENTS OF THE TWENTIES

The 1920s Art Deco movement emerged in America and reflected new art styles that responded to the ornate decorative style of the Victorian era.

ART DECO

The movement was based on the exploration of irrationality led by the human mind and the subconscious and sought to challenge the existing conventions of art at the time.

SURREALISM

The Cubist art movement was a targeted movement that sought to deconstruct reality through an analysis of the world informed by its basic geometric features.

CUBISM

American Precisionism in the 1920s reflected the landscape of industrialization and urban environments, which were driven by advancements in technology.

PRECISIONISM

This influential movement sought to assert Black identity and the exploration of Black culture in art in an already Western-European-dominated space.

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

In Japan, the Nihonga movement was at its peak in the 1920s and was a direct response to influential art styles from the West. It saw development in the fusion of Japanese painting methods with Modern themes.

NIHONGA

The New Culture Movement was considered to be the Chinese Renaissance of the 20th century, which began in 1915 and ended in the mid-1920s. 

NEW CULTURE

The famous Avant-Garde movement known as Dadaism emerged in the 1920s that confronted the norms of social and artistic conventions following World War I.

DADAISM

PHOTOGRAPHY STYLES FROM THE 1920S

The 1920s art scene was loaded with photojournalists such as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine who used photography to advocate for humanitarian issues.

PHOTOJOURNALISM

Straight photography aimed to capture images in an unaltered manner with as much clarity and sharpness as possible.

STRAIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY