Modern Art Movements and Spanish Political History

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Modern Art Movements

• Futurism: An artistic movement begun in Italy in 1909, which strongly rejected traditional forms and embraced the energy and dynamism of modern technology. Launched by Filippo Marinetti, it had effectively ended by 1918 but was widely influential, particularly in Russia on figures such as Malevich and Mayakovsky.
• Expressionism: A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express the inner world of emotion rather than external reality.
• Avant-garde art: The people and ideas that are ahead of their time. Usually, it refers to a movement in the arts, like Dadaism, or in politics, like anarchism.
• Cubism: The Cubist art movement began in Paris around 1907. Led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the Cubists broke from centuries of tradition in their painting by rejecting the single viewpoint.

Spanish Political History

• Spanish Civil War: Took place from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with the Anarchists and Communists, fought against the Nationalists, an alliance of Falangists, Monarchists, Carlists, and Catholics.
• Popular Front: A party or coalition representing left-wing elements, in particular (the Popular Front) an alliance of communist, radical, and socialist elements formed and gaining some power in countries such as France and Spain in the 1930s.
• CEDA: Was a Spanish political party in the Second Spanish Republic. A Catholic conservative force, it was the political heir to Ángel Herrera Oria's Acción Popular and defined itself in terms of the "affirmation and defence of the principles of Christian civilization."
• II Spanish Republic: The Second Spanish Republic, the democratic government that existed in Spain between April 14, 1931, when King Alfonso XIII left the country, and April 1, 1939, when the last of the Republican forces surrendered to Francoist forces at the end of the Spanish Civil War.
• Constituent Cortes: In June 1931, elections to the Constituent Cortes were held and most seats were taken by the Republican-Socialist coalition.

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