Paintings 1910-1920

"Young Redhead in an Evening Dress"  Amedeo Modigliani

Oil on Canvas  1918

"The beautiful is that which, apart from concept, pleases universally."  - Kant

"The Large Blue Horses"  Franz Mare

Oil on Canvas  1912

"Landscape at Ceret"  Juan Gris

Oil on Canvas  1913

"Art is above morals, or rather, all art is moral because...works of art are immediate means to good" 

 - Bell

"Central Park"  Maurice Brazil Prendergast

Oil on Canvas  1914-1915

"Amorpha: Figure in Two Colors"  Frantisek Kupka

Oil on Canvas 1910-1911

"The starting point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion.  the objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.  All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art."  -Bell

Paintings 1900-1909

"Street Light" Giacomo Balla

Oil on Canvas 1909

"No eye ever saw the sun without becoming sun-like nor can a soul see beauty without becoming beautiful." 

-Plotinus

"Farm Garden with Sunflowers"  Gustav Klimt 

Oil on Canvas  1906

"La Vie" Pablo Picasso

Oil on canvas 1903

  

""La Japonaise: Woman Beside the Water"  Henri Matiss

Oil and Pencil on Canvas  1905

"To appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing but a sense of form and colour and a knowledge of three-dimensional space." -Bell 

"Slaughter"  Georges Rouault

Ink and Pastel on Paper  1905

"House Behind Trees"  Georges Braque

Oil on Canvas  1906-1907

"Hope, II"  Gutav Klimt

Oil, Gold, and Platinum on Canvas  1907 - 1908

"Only inasmuch as it is honest (expressly renounces all claims to reality) and only inasmuch as it is autonomous (dispenses with all support from reality) is semblance aesthetic." -Schiller

Photography

"Rotterdam Canal" Alvin Langdon Coburn

Photograph 1908

"The Big White Cloud, Lake George"  Edward J. Steichen

Photograph 1903, printed in 1904

"Like the bodily organs in man, his imagination, too, has its free movement and its material play, an activity in which, without any reference to form, it simply delights in its own absolute and unfettered power" -Schiller

Architecture

Casa Mila  - Architect Antoni Gaudi

Barcelona, Spain 1906-1912  

"The beauty of art is born of the spirit and born again, and the higher the spirit and its productions stand above nature and it phenomena, the higher too is the beauty of art above that of nature." - Hegel  

El Mirasol - Architect Addison Mizner

Palm Beach, Florida 1919

Church of the Sacred Hearts of Mary and Jesus - Architect Nicholas Serracino

New York, New York - 1915

"The temple, in its standing there, first gives to things their look and to men their outlook on themselves.  The view remains open as long as the work is a work..." - Heidegger  

Sculptures

"The Serf" by Henri Matisse

Bronze Statue 1900-1904

"Vase" by Louis Comfort Tiffany

Favrile Glass Vase 1903

"Taste is the faculty of estimating an object or a mode of representation by means of a delights or aversion apart from any interest; the object of such a delight is called beautiful." - Kant

"Forest" Jean Arp

Painted Wood 1916

"Sleeping Muse" Constantin Brancusi

Bronze 1910

""The musician makes sounds; the sculptor makes solid shapes in stone or metal; the painter makes patterns of paint on canvass.  What there is in these works depends, of course, of what kind of works they are; and what the spectator finds in them depends on what there is in them." - Collingwood

Music and Film

Scott Joplin - Ragtime Piano - 1900

"...the effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence"  - Schopenhauer

Charlie Chaplin "The Immigrant" - 1917

"Beauty is mostly in sight but it is to be found too in things we hear, in combination of words and also in music, and in all music; for tunes and rhythms are certainly beautiful..."  - Plotinus 

Literature

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Published in 1900

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Published 1911

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Published 1916

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot

Published 1916

"It is, moreover, evident from what has been said, that it is not the function of the poet to relate what has happened, but what may happen - what is possible according to the law of probability"  - Aristotle