The artistic movement of the late 19th – early 20th

centuries
The movement initially took place at the end of the 19th century and
moved dynamically into the 20th century. Angered by the industrial
revolution, the intellect artist, musicians, philosophers, and architects
rebelled against historical traditions and embraced the new economic,
social, and political aspects of the emerging world.
 Why did the
artist rebell
against
industuralism
?
The change to
society due to the
industrialism and
new technology
sparked the anger
of modernist. The
modernist were
focus on
individualism and
against racism,
slavery and
imperialism. Angry
about tradition
teachings artist
found freedom to
express their
thoughts through
their art work.
Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1974)
These portraits are Picasso’s
early paintings starting from
1895 to 1909. A Spanish child
prodigy well gifted in the arts
was well known for his art
throughout in his life time.
Picasso’s late paintings are
known as “neo
expressionism” , which was
discredited before his death,
but later recognized as art
before his time.
 ALFRED STIEGLITZ. Waiting for the Return, c.
1895.

Now realism was ‘reality’. Capturing one’s thought and vision

in a photography.
Motion Pictures
The Beginning of
Motion Picture

The Frenchman Louis Lumiere

is often credited as inventing
the first motion picture
camera in 1895, but there
were other inventors that
made similar intentions
during this time. In 1891, the
Edison company successfully
demonstrated the
Kinetoscope, which enabled
one person at a time to view
moving pictures. Later in
1896, Edison demonstrated
his improved Vitascope
projector. It was the first
successful, commercial
projector in the U.S..
 In late 19th century, after WWI, America
entered a new genre. Ragtime music
emerged and gained huge popularity. The
rhythm of the piano was mainly the
instrument heard for all Ragtime music. The
huge influence of Ragtime music would
evolve into what we hear today as jazz.
Ragtime music remained popular through
1920’s.
Scott Joplin is know as the “King of Ragtime”
and one of the best known ragtime composers.
Joplin learned how to play the piano on the
pianos, where his mother cleaned houses. Joplin
later took lessons, and played in the Maple Leaf
Club where he started to gain fame. 
Scott Joplin 1867-1917