Ten Pivotal Works Tracing Modern Art's Evolution from Manet to Basquiat

Key facts

• The article lists 10 pivotal artworks from the Modern art movement, starting with Manet's 'Luncheon on the Grass' (1863) and ending with Basquiat's 'Three Quarters of Olympia Minus the Servant' (1982).
• Manet's 'Luncheon on the Grass' was exhibited at the 1863 Salon des Refusés after being rejected by the official Salon.
• Eugène Bataille (Sapeck) created 'Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe' in 1887, a satirical illustration published in the journal 'Le Rire'.
• Vincent van Gogh painted 'The Starry Night' in June 1889 while at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France.
• Pablo Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon' (1907) is considered a decisive rupture leading to Cubism, incorporating African tribal mask features.
• Wassily Kandinsky's 'Untitled' (1915) is an example of non-representational abstraction; he was a synesthete who associated colors with sounds.
• Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' (1917) was a manufactured urinal submitted for exhibition, questioning the definition of art.
• Jackson Pollock's 'Number 1A, 1948' marked the emergence of Abstract Expressionism and shifted the art world center from Paris to New York.
• Andy Warhol's 'Campbell's Soup Cans' (1962) debuted at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles and comprised 32 canvases, one for each soup variety.
• Jean-Michel Basquiat's 'Three Quarters of Olympia Minus the Servant' (1982) appropriated Manet's 'Olympia', reflecting his experience as a Black artist in New York.