Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)
1936
Exhibition of Cubism and Abstract Art, MoMA
A groundbreaking event in the history of abstraction and modernism in North America, this exhibition developed the narrative that adventurous artists were rejecting representation due to having grown “bored with painting facts.” The exhibition marked a shift in the global center of the art world from Europe to New York. This trend would dramatically accelerate during and after WWII, which was in its early phases in Asia. This instrumental exhibition’s weight can still be felt today as the narrative it created (proposed by MoMA’s founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr.) continues to shape how modernism is presented.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
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People
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Modernism
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- Ideas
- abstraction, Cubism, curation, history, institutions, representation, World War II
- Technologies
- Director
- People
- Alfred H. Barr Jr.
- Exhibitions
- Cubism and Abstract Art
- Organisations
- MoMA
- Places
- Asia, Europe, New York, North America
Echoes across time
- 1988 · Computers and Art at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York
- 1971 · Jasia Reichardt’s Publishes The Computer in Art
- 1987 · Computers and Art, Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art.
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- Timeline Ch 2—Modern Era with Kate Vass — listen with transcript on Le Random (20 Jul 2023, 58 min). Chapter 2’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify