Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

• Why is Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (27.5) considered to be among the formative paintings of early modern art?
• Describe Brancusi’s Newborn (27.30). How did Brancusi use a minimalist vocabulary effectively in this work?
• What factors led Kandinsky to arrive at non-representational painting?
• In what ways did Marcel Duchamp’s “Assisted Readymade” test the traditional notions about what constitutes art?

• What was the impact of the Armory Show of 1913 on art in the United States?
• How did Cubo-Futurism differ from Futurism?

• How did the Fauves get their name?