Making it New: Modernism in The Early 20th Century at The Courtauld Institute of Art

Modernism in the Early-20th Century is a course that explores the rebellious momentum of an exciting period. However, it terminates in the tragedy of the First World War when many avant garde artists found themselves caught up in a blood-bath. Visits include the Courtauld Gallery’s display of 20th-century art, Tate Modern, the Estorick collection of Modern Italian Art and the Imperial War Museum. With seismic explosiveness, young artists across Europe changed the course of painting and sculpture soon after the new century began. A series of revolutionary movements erupted, beginning with fauvism in France and expressionism in Germany. The Italian futurists were the most clamorous but the cubists in Paris proved the most far-reaching. Then, in 1914, London was shocked by the advent of vorticism and its rumbustious magazine Blast.