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-{{Template}} +[[Image:Blackface.jpg|thumb|left|200px|This reproduction of a [[1900]] [[minstrel show]] poster, originally published by the Strobridge [[Lithography|Litho]] Co., shows the transformation from [[white people|white]] to "[[blackface|black]]".]]
 +[[Image:Paris at the 1900 World Fair.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Paris]] at the [[1900]] [[World's Fair]]: [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|Exposition Universelle]]]]
 +[[Image:Sea and Sand, Domburg by Whistler.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Sea]] and [[Sand]], [[Domburg]]'' ([[1900]]) by [[James McNeill Whistler]]]]
 +[[Image:Eugene Atget.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Rue de la Colonie'' ([[1900]]) - [[Eugène Atget]]]]
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 +'''Year 1900''' (MCM) was the 1900th year of the Anno Domini or the Common Era designation, the 900th year of the [[2nd millennium]], the last year of the [[19th century]] and the first year of the [[1900s]].
== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
- +*The [[Exposition Universelle (1900)|Exposition Universelle]] held in Paris in 1900 announced [[Art Nouveau]] as a significant new style in architecture and design.
===Visual arts === ===Visual arts ===
-The The Road to Hell[1] is a 1900 drawing by Alfred Kubin that depicts a tunnel, at the end of the tunnel is a woman, between this woman's legs disappear rectangular boxes speeding towards her.+*[[The Road to Hell]] by Alfred Kubin
 +*[[The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton]] by Thomas Eakins
 + 
===Literature=== ===Literature===
-*[[Sigmund Freud]] — ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]''+*''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' by Sigmund Freud
-*''[[La Ronde]]'' - [[Arthur Schnitzler]]+*''[[La Ronde (play)|La Ronde]]'' by Arthur Schnitzler
 +*''[[The Diary of a Chambermaid (novel)|The Diary of a Chambermaid]]'' by Octave Mirbeau
 +===Films===
 +*''[[The Enchanted Drawing]]'' by J. Stuart Blackton
 +* ''[[The Two Blind Men]]'' directed by Georges Méliès
==Births== ==Births==
-* [[April 13]] - [[Pierre Molinier]], French painter, photographer and "maker of objects" (d. [[1976]])+* [[April 13]] - [[Pierre Molinier]], French outsider artist (d. [[1976]])
* [[January 5]] - [[Yves Tanguy]], French painter (d. [[1955]]) * [[January 5]] - [[Yves Tanguy]], French painter (d. [[1955]])
* [[February 4]] - [[Jacques Prévert]], French lyricist and author (d. [[1977]]) * [[February 4]] - [[Jacques Prévert]], French lyricist and author (d. [[1977]])
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==Deaths== ==Deaths==
-* [[Henry Spencer Ashbee]] 
* [[January 20]] - [[John Ruskin]], English writer and social critic (b. [[1819]]) * [[January 20]] - [[John Ruskin]], English writer and social critic (b. [[1819]])
* [[June 5]] - [[Stephen Crane]], American author (b. [[1871]]) * [[June 5]] - [[Stephen Crane]], American author (b. [[1871]])
 +* [[July 29]] - [[Henry Spencer Ashbee]], British book collector and writer (b. [[1834]])
* [[August 25]] - [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], German philosopher and writer (b. [[1844]]) * [[August 25]] - [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], German philosopher and writer (b. [[1844]])
* [[November 30]] - [[Oscar Wilde]], Irish writer (b. [[1854]]) * [[November 30]] - [[Oscar Wilde]], Irish writer (b. [[1854]])
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This reproduction of a 1900 minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co., shows the transformation from white to "black".
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This reproduction of a 1900 minstrel show poster, originally published by the Strobridge Litho Co., shows the transformation from white to "black".
Rue de la Colonie (1900) - Eugène Atget
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Rue de la Colonie (1900) - Eugène Atget

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Year 1900 (MCM) was the 1900th year of the Anno Domini or the Common Era designation, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the last year of the 19th century and the first year of the 1900s.

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