Modernity and Visualizing the Person

I'm under no illusion that the following works can be considered representative of an entire period of history and culture; nonetheless, they do reveal some shifting attitudes and viewpoints toward the human person that express some aspects of the 20th century. Look at each painting, what do they suggest about attitudes toward humanity?

20th Century Paintings

  • Four Dancers
    Degas (c. 1899)
  • Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
    Pablo Picasso (1907)
  • Le double secret
    Magritte (1927)
  • The Lovers
  • Jacob Lawrence (1946)
  • Woman V
    Kooning (1952-1953)
  • Marilyn Monroe
    Andy Warhol (ca. 1962)
  • Interrogations II
    Leon Golub (1980-81)
  • Overshadowed
    Patty Wickman (2001)