New Visions of the World
from the guide Modern Art and Ideas 4: 1914–1928

During an exceptionally charged moment in European history, two artists, Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, began exploring an entirely new form of painting.

Constructing Things
from the guide Modern Art and Ideas 4: 1914–1928

The years 1917 to 1922 brought both civil turmoil and possibility to Russia. Artists believed that their modernist, iconoclastic approach to art would help to create a new language for the free, Communist state.

Ideal Living
from the guide Modern Art and Ideas 4: 1914–1928

This lesson examines two artists, Vasily Kandinsky and Marcel Breuer, who were friends and faculty members of the international school and collaborative project known as the Bauhaus.

Ideal Objects
from the guide Modern Art and Ideas 4: 1914–1928

Artists Gustav Klucis and Gerrit Rietveld were interested in applying modernist ideas and principles to everyday design.

Ideal Performance
from the guide Modern Art and Ideas 4: 1914–1928

The history of modern art has many examples of artists’ collaboration with choreographers, musicians and writers in the staging of performances, many of which shocked audiences.