Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde

The cluster of movements that broke most radically with representational tradition in the first decades of the twentieth century, spanning Cubism's fractured geometry, Fauvism's raw color, Expressionism's subjective distortion, Futurism's embrace of speed and machinery, Constructivism and De Stijl's abstraction into geometric and social program, Dada's rejection of convention, Surrealism's exploration of the unconscious, and the Vienna Secession's break from academic exhibition tradition. Belongs here: Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Futurism, Constructivism, De Stijl, Dada, Surrealism, Vienna Secession. Does not belong here: the architecture- and design-focused modernist movements of the same decades, which are grouped separately under Modernist Architecture and Design.