Week of May 20- Museum of Modern Art

Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque in Paris around 1907 and 1914. Cubism was the first abstract style of modern art. A Cubist painter wanted to emphasize the two-dimensionality of the canvas. They reduced geometric forms. Also cubist painting ignores the traditions of perspective drawing. Picasso and Braque combined representational motifs with letters. Cubism makes visible some important characteristics of modern life. Cubism suggest constant change and evolution. In addition in cubist artwork objects are analyzed, broken up.

Surrealism originated in mid 1920s by a group of writer and painters protest the direction of European culture. They proclaimed the importance of the unconscious mind of dreams, fantasies and hallucinations. Surrealism was launched in Paris in 1924. Abstract Surrealism provides suggestive elements that give wide play to the viewers imagination and emphasize color and design. This painting is called Gala Éluard  by Artist Max Ernst made in 1924. Ernst met poet Paul Éluard in Cologne in 1921. In 1922, Ernst moved to Paris, where he lived with the Éluards until 1924. By then he had become one of the founding members of Surrealism. The top of her head peels away and scrolls forward like a poster from a wall.