Art evolutions: Post-Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism

The course explores the major art movements in Western art from 1900 to around 1950, considering the impact of the world wars, the changing roles of artists and patrons, psychology and other contributing factors.
We follows a broadly chronological survey of the major phases in modern art in this period, including Fauvism, Cubism and the road to abstraction, Futurist and Vorticist painting and sculpture, pre- and post-war Expressionism in Europe; Dada and Surrealism across Europe and in New York, the Soviet Avant-Garde, Socialist Realism and American Realism and the road to Abstract Expressionism.