About This Lesson
These curriculum materials explore developments in modern art in western Europe and the United States between 1906 and 1955. Four works are highlighted: a painting by Raoul Dufy, a Constantin Brancusi sculpture, a black-and-white photograph by Marjorie Content, and a mixed-media work by Lee Krasner. This selection of artworks from LACMA’s permanent collection illustrates the ways modern artists broke with centuries-old traditions of art making and turned a critical eye toward the subjects, concepts, materials, and formal qualities of their work.
