- 1914 Charlie Chaplin first appeared as the Little Tramp.
- 1916 Battle of the Somme.
- 1920 Women given the right to vote in the U.S.
- 1921 Extreme inflation in Germany.
- 1922 Insulin discovered.
- 1924 First Olympic winter games.
- 1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald published.
Constructivism (1913-1930)
Constructivism was a total commitment to and acceptance of modernity. The pieces created were often totally abstract, with an emphasis on geometric shapes and experimentation. Constructivist art was optimistic. The movement wanted to remove all art that had come before which led to catastrophic war. The new art would lead to greater understanding, peace and unity, which would then have an impact on the social and economic problems of the time. The movement was founded in about 1915 by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko.
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| El Lissitzky 1. Part of the Show Machinery 1923 Lithograph on paper |
Cubism (1907-1915)
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907/08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who aimed to bring different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.
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| Pablo Picasso Bowl of Fruit, Violin and Bottle 1914 Oil on canvas |
Fauvism (1905-1910)
Fauvism is the name applied to the work produced by a group of artists (which included Henri Matisse and André Derain) from around 1905 to 1910, which is characterised by strong colours and fierce brushwork.
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| André Derain Henri Matisse 1905 |
German expressionism was an early twentieth century German art movement that emphasized the artist’s inner feelings or ideas over replicating reality, and was characterised by simplified shapes, bright colours and gestural marks or brushstrokes.
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| George Grosz Suicide 1916 |
Futurism was an Italian art movement of the early twentieth century that aimed to capture in art the dynamism and energy of the modern world.
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| Gino Severini Suburban Train Arriving in Paris 1915 |
De Stijl was a circle of Dutch abstract artists who promoted a style of art based on a strict geometry of horizontals and verticals.
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| Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart Composition No. 15 1925 |
Suprematism (1915-1925)
Name given by the Russian artist Kasimir Malevich to the abstract art he developed from 1913 characterised by basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colours.
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| Kazimir Malevich Dynamic Suprematism 1915 or 1916 |
Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect.
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| Morris Louis Phi 1960-1 |
My image of a woman of the 'Roaring Twenties' is the image of a flapper. Flappers did not truly emerge until 1926. Flapper fashion embraced all things and styles modern. A fashionable flapper had short sleek hair, a shorter than average shapeless shift dress, a chest as flat as a board, wore make up and applied it in public, smoked with a long cigarette holder, exposed her limbs and epitomised the spirit of a reckless rebel who danced the nights away in the Jazz Age.
The bras of the early 20s include home made ones in white cotton and which were little more than bust bodices with extra separation. Some purchased bras were like camisoles and they offered no support.
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