20th century

The 20th century denotes the age of avant-garde, world wars, abstractions, design, photography, cinema, conceptual art, and contemporary practices. It is not merely a classification label: it is a way of understanding what exhibitions show, the questions they pose, and the audiences they can reach. Historical context is essential. The 20th century radically transformed artistic forms under the effects of political, technical, and social ruptures: speed, media, migrations, and new publics. Reading an exhibition through this lens allows one to situate the works within a chronology, but also within uses: commission, collection, transmission, criticism, market, memory, or experimentation. Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Giacometti, Bourgeois, Warhol, or conceptual artists provide some reference points without exhausting its diversity. Within the Expo Paris corpus, this hub can notably dialogue with Magdalena Abakanowicz and Robert Capa. War photographer. These connections do not replace a critical visit: they serve as entry points to move from one exhibition to another and compare scenography, source, and mediation choices. It is central because it disrupts the very idea of the work. It makes coexist object, gesture, idea, reproducible image, installation, and institutional criticism. To prepare a visit, it is useful to observe the dates, supports, lenders, the place of archives, the presence of female artists or lesser-known scenes, as well as the links proposed towards other themes, movements, and Parisian places.

20th century is useful on Expo Paris because it places exhibitions inside a readable chronology instead of leaving them as isolated events. 19 linked exhibitions already give this page a concrete editorial role in the English navigation.

This period becomes more legible when read through artists such as Pablo Picasso, Hilma Af Klint, and Lee Miller. Movements like Modern art, Conceptual Art, and Surrealism help explain its formal and cultural tensions. Subjects such as Portraits of artists, War photography, and Cinema and photography show how the same era can be approached from several angles.

• Pablo Picasso - 3 exhibitions
• Hilma Af Klint - 1 exhibition
• Lee Miller - 1 exhibition
• Modern art - 5 exhibitions
• Conceptual Art - 4 exhibitions
• Surrealism - 2 exhibitions
• Portraits of artists - 5 exhibitions
• War photography - 3 exhibitions
• Cubism
• Henri Matisse

These routes preserve a reliable reading path in English, even before every related historical branch has been reopened in strict mode.