A cheat sheet
on Modernism
in art
About
the project
the project
The site represents a curated list of 250+ masterpieces. The main goal of the project is not to become an ultimate guide on Modernism, but to help to memorise some of them.
Made by Aleksey Cherenkevich in 2022.
1863
Breakfast on the grass
Édouard Manet
Realism
Olympia
Édouard Manet
Realism
1865
Luncheon on the grass
Claude Monet
Impressionism
1868
Jockeys (Race horses before the stands)
Edgar Degas
Impressionism
1869
The frog pond
Claude Monet
Impressionism
The frog pond
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Impressionism
1872
A large promenade at Le Havre
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Impression. Sunrise
Claude Monet
Impressionism
1873
Boulevard des Capucines in Paris
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Boulevard des Capucines
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Lilacs in the sun
Claude Monet
Impressionism
1875
Wash
Édouard Manet
Impressionism
Woman with an umbrella
Claude Monet
Impressionism
1876
Dance at Le Moulin de La Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Impressionism
1877
Dancers at the Old Opera house
Edgar Degas
Impressionism
Ballet rehearsal
Edgar Degas
Impressionism
The Saint-Lazare train station. Outside view
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet
Impressionism
European bridge, gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Portrait of Jeanne Samary
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Impressionism
1878
Little girl in a blue armchair
Mary Cassatt
Impressionism
The Rue Montorgueil in Paris, festival of 30 June 1878
Claude Monet
Impressionism
1879
The bar
Édouard Manet
Impressionism
1881
Lady in pink
Édouard Manet
Impressionism
1882
Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Édouard Manet
Impressionism
Portrait of Méry Laurent with a pug
Édouard Manet
Impressionism
Two Girls in Black
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Impressionism
1885
The potato eaters
Vincent van Gogh
Realism
Sick girl
Edvard Munch
Expressionism
The plain by mont Sainte-Victoire, view from Valcros
Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism
1886
Haystack at Giverny
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat
Pointillism, Neo-Impressionism
The Maria at Honfleur
Georges Seurat
Pointillism, Neo-Impressionism
1887
Still life with pears
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Mount Sainte-Victoire with large pine
Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism
The house and farm to Mrs. de Bouffan
Paul Cézanne
Impressionism
Portrait Of Vincent Van Gogh
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Post-Impressionism
Girl with peaches
Valentin Serov
Impressionism
1888
Red vineyards at Arles
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Seascape at Saintes-Maries
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Bedroom in Arles
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Night café at Arles
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
Vision after the Sermon, or Jacob's Struggle with the Angel
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
1889
Self-portrait with bandaged ear and pipe
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Self-portrait
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Vase with sunflowers
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Two poplars on a road to the hills
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Starry night
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Green wheat field with cypress
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Portrait of doctor Felix Rey
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Portrait of the postman Joseph Roulin
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Wheat field with cypress
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Irises
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Lilac Bush
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Haystack at Giverny
Claude Monet
Impressionism
1890
Bouquet of irises
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Landscape at Auvers after the rain
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Portrait of doctor Gachet
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Prisoners exercising (after Doré)
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Wheat field with crows
Vincent van Gogh
Post-Impressionism
Smoker
Paul Cézanne
Impressionism
Pierrot and harlequin
Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism
Portrait Of Felix Feneon
Paul Signac
Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism
At the Moulin Rouge: the dance
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Post-Impressionism
Self-portrait
Henri Rousseau
Primitivism
1891
Haystacks. The effect of frost
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Stack. The end of summer. Morning
Claude Monet
Impressionism
The evening peace. Concarneau. Opus 220 (Allegro Maestoso)
Paul Signac
Pointillism
Moulin Rouge. La Goulue
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Post-Impressionism
1892
Are you jealous?
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
Arearea (Joyfulness)
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
Spirit of the dead watching
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
Woman with mango
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
What’s new?
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
In Moulin Rouge. Two women dancing
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Post-Impressionism
La goulue at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Post-Impressionism
1893
Scream
Edvard Munch
Expressionism
Ambassadors: Aristide Bruant in his cabaret
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Art Nouveau
Poster ”Japanese sofa“
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Art Nouveau
1894
The Rouen Cathedral at noon
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Rouen Cathedral in the evening
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Madonna
Edvard Munch
Expressionism
Still life with bottle and basket of apples
Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism
Still life with a geranium Bush and fruit
Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism
1895
Players in cards
Paul Cézanne
Impressionism
Peaches and pears
Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism
Two friends
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Post-Impressionism
1896
The wife of the king
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
Colors for a large wall
Camille Pissarro
Impressionism
Man smoking a pipe
Paul Cézanne
Impressionism
1897
The sleeping Gypsy
Henri Rousseau
Primitivism
1898
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
Blue dancers
Edgar Degas
Impressionism
The avenue de L’Opera, Paris, sunlight, winter morning
Camille Pissarro
Impressionism
Opera travel
Camille Pissarro
Impressionism
1899
White water lilies
Claude Monet
Impressionism
The Port Of Saint-Tropez
Paul Signac
Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism
1900
The dance of life
Edvard Munch
Expressionism
1901
Self-portrait
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
Two acrobats (Harlequin and his companion)
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
The absinthe drinker
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
The Glass of beer (Portrait of the poet Sabartés)
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
1902
Still life with parrots
Paul Gauguin
Post-Impressionism
Sleeping drunk
Pablo Picasso
Expressionism
Soup
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
1903
Waterloo bridge, fog effect
Claude Monet
Impressionism
The houses of Parliament. Fog and seagulls
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Old jew and a boy
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
1904
Celestine
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
1905
Woman with a hat
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Parrot tulips
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Girl on the ball
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
The spanish island of Majorca
Pablo Picasso
Expressionism
Large bathers
Paul Cézanne
Post-Impressionism
A Portrait Of Matisse
Andre Derain
Fauvism
Bâteaux dans le Port de Collioure
Andre Derain
Fauvism
1906
The joy of life
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Portrait Of Gertrude Stein
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
1907
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Gustav Klimt
Symbolism, Modern
The Young Ladies of Avignon
Pablo Picasso
Cubism
Self-portrait
Pablo Picasso
Cubism
Repast of the lion
Henri Rousseau
Primitivism
Big Ben
Andre Derain
Fauvism
1908
Kiss
Gustav Klimt
Symbolism, Modern
Harmony in red
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Houses in Munich
Wassily Kandinsky
Fauvism
1909
Spanish woman with a tambourine
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Venice, the pink cloud
Paul Signac
Pointillism
Arabs. Cemetery
Wassily Kandinsky
Fauvism
Bedroom Ainmillerstrasse
Wassily Kandinsky
Expressionism
1910
Self-portrait
Kazimir Malevich
Fauvism
Music
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Dance II
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Sleep
Henri Rousseau
Primitivism
A Jaguar Attacking a Horse
Henri Rousseau
Primitivism
Violin and pitcher
Georges Braque
Cubism
Self portrait and portrait of Pyotr Konchalovsky
Ilya Mashkov
Post-Impressionism
1911
Joaquina
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
The pink studio
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
I and my village
Marc Chagall
Expressionism, Cubism, Symbolism
1912
Goldfish
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Nasturtiums. Panel the Dance II
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Corner of the artist’s studio
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Violin and grapes
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
Bathing the red horse
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Art Nouveau
1913
The virgins
Gustav Klimt
Symbolism, Modern
Reaper on red background
Kazimir Malevich
Cubism, Cubo-futurism
Window at Tangier
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Entrance to the Kasbah
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
Self-portrait with seven fingers
Marc Chagall
Cubism, Surrealism
The betrothed and Eiffel tower
Marc Chagall
Surrealism
Paris through the window
Marc Chagall
Expressionism, Cubism, Symbolism
Violinist
Marc Chagall
Expressionism
Composition VII
Wassily Kandinsky
Abstractionism
1915
A red square
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism
Black suprematist square
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism
L’Anniversaire
Marc Chagall
Expressionism, Surrealism
1916
Suprematist composition
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism
1917
Bella white collar
Marc Chagall
Cubism
1918
Suprematism: white on white
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism
Over the city
Marc Chagall
Surrealism
Walk
Marc Chagall
Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism
1921
Composition with large red plane, yellow, black, gray and blue
Piet Mondrian
De Stijl
The Port Of La Rochelle
Paul Signac
Neo-Impressionism, Pointillism
1923
Black cross
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism
The black circle
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism
Harlequin (artist Salvador)
Pablo Picasso
Neo-Classicism
Composition VIII
Wassily Kandinsky
Abstractionism
In white II
Wassily Kandinsky
Abstractionism
1926
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet
Impressionism
Water lilies (nymph)
Claude Monet
Impressionism
1927
Automat
Edward Hopper
American realism
1928
The lovers
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Eva
Chaïm Soutine
Expressionism
1929
Great masturbator
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism
The treachery of Images
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Haymaking
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism
Chop Suey
Edward Hopper
American realism
1930
American gothic
Grant Wood
Regionalism
A man in a suprematist landscape
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism
Composition with red, blue and yellow
Piet Mondrian
De Stijl
1931
The persistence of memory
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism
Athletes
Kazimir Malevich
Suprematism
1932
Girls in the field
Kazimir Malevich
Abstractionism, Cubism
Landscape with five houses
Kazimir Malevich
Abstractionism
Red cavalry gallops
Kazimir Malevich
Abstractionism
1933
Human condition
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Self-portrait
Kazimir Malevich
Neo-Classicism
1934
Collective invention
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Violence
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
1936
Clairvoyance
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Composition with white, red and yellow
Piet Mondrian
De Stijl
1937
Sleep
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism
Not to be reproduced
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Principles of pleasure
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Guernica
Pablo Picasso
Cubism
Crying woman
Pablo Picasso
Post-Impressionism
1939
Two Fridas
Frida Kahlo
Symbolism, Primitivism
1940
Homesickness
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Self-portrait with thorn necklace
Frida Kahlo
Symbolism, Primitivism
1941
Face of war
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism
1942
New York 1
Piet Mondrian
De Stijl
Nighthawks
Edward Hopper
American realism
1943
Geopolitical child observing the birth of a new person
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism
In the lobby of the hotel
Edward Hopper
American realism
1944
Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate a second before awakening
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism
The broken column
Frida Kahlo
Symbolism, Primitivism
1945
Black magic
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
1947
Alchemy
Jackson Pollock
Abstract expressionism
Summer evening
Edward Hopper
American realism
Nocturne (Night scene)
Marc Chagall
Primitivism
1948
Number 5
Jackson Pollock
Abstract expressionism
1949
The Empire of Light
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
1950
Number 1 (Lavender mist)
Jackson Pollock
Abstract expressionism
Autumn rhythm (Number 30)
Jackson Pollock
Abstract expressionism
No. 5/No. 22
Mark Rothko
Color field painting
1951
Meschers
Ellsworth Kelly
Hard-edge painting
Colors for a large wall
Ellsworth Kelly
Hard-edge painting
1952
Blue poles
Jackson Pollock
Abstract expressionism
The morning sun
Edward Hopper
American realism
1953
Golconda
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
1954
Sodom-gratification of the virgin
Salvador Dalí
Surrealism
Blue nude
Henri Matisse
Fauvism
1957
A variation on sadness
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Light red over black
Mark Rothko
Color field painting
1958
Vacation Of Hegel
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
1959
Red on Burgundy
Mark Rothko
Color field painting
Black on Burgundy
Mark Rothko
Color field painting
1961
Orange, red, yellow
Mark Rothko
Color field painting
Campbell’s tomato soup
Andy Warhol
Pop Art
Yellow white
Ellsworth Kelly
Hard-edge painting
1963
Green blue red
Ellsworth Kelly
Hard-edge painting
1964
The son of man
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
The man in the bowler hat
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Turquoise Marilyn
Andy Warhol
Pop Art
Liz
Andy Warhol
Pop Art
Red blue
Ellsworth Kelly
Hard-edge painting
1965
Beautiful heretic
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
The blank signature
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
Red-orange over blue
Ellsworth Kelly
Hard-edge painting
1967
The art of living
René Magritte
Surrealism, Magical realism
1970
Flowers
Andy Warhol
Pop Art
1980
Artist and his bride
Marc Chagall
Primitivism
1983
Tree frog
Andy Warhol
Pop Art
1986
Self portrait (hair on end)
Andy Warhol
Pop Art
1987
Red Lenin
Andy Warhol
Pop Art
1995
Dark blue curve
Ellsworth Kelly
Hard-edge painting