Art

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             Cubism: Cubism can be defined as either analytical or synthetic. In analytical cubist painting, the object was "taken apart" and reshaped with the use of flat intersecting planes. A synthetic cubist work had bits of real objects worked into the picture. Items like newspaper clippings, rope and other "found objects" were attached to the canvas. .
             Dada: With this form, everyday objects were altered ever so slightly and called "art". The idea here was that art really meant nothing and had no purpose whatsoever. This is be classified as a rebellious stage amongst artist.
             Bauhaus: Concepts of cubism were applied to architecture and art.
             Harlem Renaissance: Outburst of creative activity among African-Americans occurred in all fields of art.
             Surrealism: The emphasis was on the unconscious, with artists often drawing on images seen in dreams or while in dream-like states. Quite often, objects that appear next to one another in a surrealist painting seem to have little if any relationship, with no logical reason why certain images appear together. .
             Early Modernism as an expression was explored from the turn of the century until the early fifties. By this time, many felt that modernism was full of exhausted ideas. There was a new force in artistic expression brewing and this force was the stage of late-modernism. Many had begun to see the early modernism form of artistic experience as being oppressive and tired. The limits of exploration had been reached inside the scope of the early modernist expression. Artists looked to the future and technical advancement for inspiration, they were unaware of what the future and technology had in store for them. This is when the latter part of modernism arose in America. The transition from early modernism to late modernism began after WW II. The late modernism movement started in New York City. Modernism at this point seemed to have no subject matter in regards to artistic form.