What is Modern Art?
Modern art generally includes a mix of different styles and “movements” of art. It refers to a time in history when artists started thinking about creating works of art in ways that were new, fresh, and different from the way art had been done before.
If you’re talking about the time period for modern art, it’s generally agreed to be the time between about the 1860s and the 1970s. Some art historians think it started closer to the end of the 19th century (the late 1800s.) Art after that time period is generally referred to as Contemporary (or sometimes Postmodern) Art.
For instance, before World War 1, a field of painting called Cubism was introduced by artists like Pablo Picasso. In Cubist panting, objects are broken into fragments and reorganized into geometric shapes. Sometimes all the surfaces of the objects were shown at the same time.
Picasso and many other artists were influenced by other cultures; Picasso was very influenced by African masks, which can be seen in many of his works.
Other movements in modern art included Fauvism, around 1905, which comes from the French word “fauve” or wild beasts, and included wild, bright colors; and abstract art--a move towards painting without recognizable forms or images. Abstract paintings are often full of jumbled swirls of colors, lines, and shapes“”there’s no attempt to reproduce the way something actually looks. (Look at works by artists like Jackson Pollock and Joan Miro.)
Many people who see paintings by certain modern artists for the first time are confused, and they’re not alone! Sometimes a new style of painting takes getting used to! People are often used to seeing pictures of things: a sailboat, a person, a plate of fruit. Much of the work done by modern artists is about experimenting and creating a mood or feeling through the painting, and in the viewer. So go with an open mind!
If you’re talking about the time period for modern art, it’s generally agreed to be the time between about the 1860s and the 1970s. Some art historians think it started closer to the end of the 19th century (the late 1800s.) Art after that time period is generally referred to as Contemporary (or sometimes Postmodern) Art.
For instance, before World War 1, a field of painting called Cubism was introduced by artists like Pablo Picasso. In Cubist panting, objects are broken into fragments and reorganized into geometric shapes. Sometimes all the surfaces of the objects were shown at the same time.
Picasso and many other artists were influenced by other cultures; Picasso was very influenced by African masks, which can be seen in many of his works.
Other movements in modern art included Fauvism, around 1905, which comes from the French word “fauve” or wild beasts, and included wild, bright colors; and abstract art--a move towards painting without recognizable forms or images. Abstract paintings are often full of jumbled swirls of colors, lines, and shapes“”there’s no attempt to reproduce the way something actually looks. (Look at works by artists like Jackson Pollock and Joan Miro.)
Many people who see paintings by certain modern artists for the first time are confused, and they’re not alone! Sometimes a new style of painting takes getting used to! People are often used to seeing pictures of things: a sailboat, a person, a plate of fruit. Much of the work done by modern artists is about experimenting and creating a mood or feeling through the painting, and in the viewer. So go with an open mind!
1800'S art
1900'S ART
2000'S ART
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