20th Century Art, Stella Paull

A Resource for Educators The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Resource for Educators The Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Stella Paul

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's teacher training programs and accompanying materials are made possible through a generous grant from Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Rose.

Copyright © 1999 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art Written by Stella Paul Designed by Tsang Seymour Design Production by Masha Turchinsky Copy Edited by Katherine Balch

Photographs of works of art in the Museum's collection are by The Photograph Studio of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Permissions for reproducing images of works of art: Reproduction of Kandinsky The Garder! of Love © 1999 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ ADAGp, Paris. Reproduction of Leger Woman with a Cat © 1999 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGp. Paris. Reproduction of Mondrian Composition © 1999 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Beeldrecht Amsterdam. Reproduction of Klee Cold City © 1999 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Reproduction of Gorky Water of the Flowery Mill © 1999 Estate of ArshiJe Gorky/Artists Right Society (ARS), New York. Reproduction of Picasso Gertrude Stein and Still Life with Pipes © 1999 Estate of Pablo Picasso/ Artists Rights Society (ARS). New York. Reproduction of Matisse Nasturtiums with Dance © 1999 Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS). New York Reproduction of de Kooning, Woman © 1998 Will em de Kooning Revocable Tmst/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Reproduction of Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number ]0) © 1998 Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), :-;ew York. Reproduction of Rothko, Number I] (White, Red © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Reproduction of Warhol, Last SelF Portrait © 1998 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York. Reproduction of Brancusi, Bird in Space, Miro, Animated Landscape, and Giacometti. Three Me>! Walking © 1998 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ ADAGP, Paris. Reproduction of Bearden, The Block © Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Reproduction of Wood. The Ride of Paul Revere © Estate of Grant Wood/I.icensed by VAGA. New York. Reproduction of Davis. Report .from Rockport © Estate of Stuart Davis/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Reproduction of Johns, White Flag © Jasper Johns/Licenced by VAGA. New York. Reproduction of Kelly. Blue. Grew. Red permission of the artist. Reproduction of Close. LllcaS, permission of the artist. Permissions for reproducing comparative photographs: Photograph of Gertrude Stein printed with the permission of the law oCfices of Levin & Gann [or the estate of Gertrude Stein and the Yale Collection of American Literature. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Photograph of Iberian sculpture courtesy of Archivo Fotografico. Museo Arquologico Nacional, Madrid. !ts oIContemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings, University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles. © 1996 by The Regents of the University of California are printed with permission: Mark Rothko, "I Paint Very Large Pictures." 1951 Isamu Noguchi, "A Sculptor's World," 1968 For full citations and information about original sources. see individual sections in Appendix. Matisse, "Notes ofa Painter" © S.p.A.D.E.'v1., Paris. Andre Breton, Manifesto oISurrealism excerpts drawn from translations by Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane, Ann Arbor Paperbacks, The University of Michigan Press. © 1969 by The University of Michigan. Originally published in Paris by Jean-Jacques Pauvert Editeur as Manifestes du Surrealisme. This excerpt reprinted here with permission. Grant Wood excerpts reprinted from James M. Dennis, Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture. by permission of the University of Missouri Press, Columbia. Copyright © 1975 and 1