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Masterpieces of Western Music

Humanities W1123 · Prof. Michael Thaddeus

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

THE AVANT-GARDE IN ART, 1890-1920



FAUVISM: André Derain, Bridge over the Riou (1906)


CUBISM: Pablo Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin (1910)


PRIMITIVISM: Paul Gauguin, The Moon and the Earth (1893)


Henri Rousseau, The Dream (1910)


Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)


Henri Matisse, Dance (I) (1909)


Derain, Bacchic Dance (1906)

All of the above are in the Museum of Modern Art.


Nicholas Roerich, Set for The Rite of Spring (1930)


Roerich, Costumes for the Young Men


Roerich, Costumes for the Young Women


Roerich, Costumes for the Elders


Picasso, Stravinsky (1920)