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1917
 
    
The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is the first to use the term Surrealism       
1917
 
   
Amedeo Modigliani's first Paris exhibition is immediately closed by the police because it contains paintings of nudes      
1917
 
    
Piet Mondrian and other Dutch artists establish the movement known as De Stijl, together with a magazine of the same name       
1918
 
    
The Russian artist Kasimir Malevich begins a series of White on White paintings       
1919
 
    
The phrase Abstract Expressionism is first used, describing the work of Wassily Kandinsky       
1919
 
    
John Singer Sargent completes Gassed, a powerful image of one of the particular horrors of the recent war       
1920
 
   
Artists dedicated to celebrating the Canadian landscape come together as the Group of Seven      
1922
 
    
Wassily Kandinsky takes up a teaching post at the Bauhaus in Weimar       
1922
 
   
Diego Rivera, returning from his study of Italian frescoes, begins the first of his influential murals depicting Mexican history      
1924
 
     
Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris