20th-Century Art

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Major developments in 20th-century art in the mediums of painting and sculpture are covered, with emphasis on modernist masters from Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi to Pollock and Warhol, and avant-garde practices such as Constructivism, Dada, and Surrealism. The class will track their relevance for art up to the present. Each practitioner and movement will be placed in historical and geopolitical context.