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| c. 1913 |
| | | The cubist movement enters its second phase, deriving from the use of collage and known as Synthetic cubism | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Leonardo's Mona Lisa is recovered two years after its theft when the thief, Vincenzo Perugia, tries to sell it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp exhibits his first pure 'readymade', a bottle rack bought in a department store and displayed without alteration | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Tristan Tzara and other artists in Zurich call their new movement Dada (the French for 'hobby-horse', selected at random from a dictionary) | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Claude Monet begins the great cyclorama of water-lilies, Nympheas, that he donates to the French nation | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp submits a ceramic urinal to the Society of Independent Artists in New York, giving it the title Fountain | |
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| 1917 |
| | | The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is the first to use the term Surrealism | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Amedeo Modigliani's first Paris exhibition is immediately closed by the police because it contains paintings of nudes | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp adds a moustache and beard to a postcard of the Mona Lisa, and gives it the subtly offensive French title LHOOQ | |
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| 1924 |
| | | André Breton launches a new movement with his Manifesto of surrealism - Soluble fish | |
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