Timeline
1906–1907....................................... Beginning of Cubism with Picasso’s
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
c. 1912 ............................................. Movement known as De Stijl.
1913................................................. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
(1912), by Duchamp, shown at 1913
Armory Show in New York; Birth of the
Constructivist art movement in Russia.
1914–1918....................................... World War I.
1916................................................. Term Dada coined by Tristan Tzara.
1917 í1918 ...................................... Picasso develops his Neoclassical style,
which reached its apogee with Three
Women at the Spring (1921).
1924................................................. Beginnings of Surrealism.
1929 í1939 ...................................... Great Depression.
1936–1939....................................... Spanish Civil War; bombing of
Guernica (April 26, 1937).
1939–1945....................................... World War II.