ABOUT MODERN ART

Modern Art characteristic of the 20th and 21st centuries and of the later part of the 19th century.

Roots in the 19th century

Although modern sculpture and architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the 19th century, the beginnings of modern painting can be located earlier. The date perhaps most commonly identified as marking the birth of modern art is 1863, the year that Édouard Manet showed his painting Le déjeuner sur l'herbe in the Salon des Refusés in Paris. Earlier dates have also been proposed, among them 1855 and 1784.

Early 20th century

Among the movements which flowered in the first decade of the 20th century were Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, and Futurism.

Modern Art Movements

Here are some modern art movements

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Cubism

Fauvism

Expressionism

Dadaism

MODERN ART FACTS

SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT THE MODERN ART MOVEMENTS

The foundation of Cubism Movement was Picasso’s early work including “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and it gradually developed into the style we now recognize as cubism.

By the beginning of the 1872, The name Impressionism had emerged as a core label of this style. “Impressionism” was derived from the tile of a Claude Monet painting: Impression, soleil levant (Sunrise – Impression).

Of the dozens of movements that vied for this honor, Surrealism proved to be the most influential and the most persistent.

Futurism is is a representation of embracing both popular and avant-garde mediums, and unlike many other modern art movements, Futurism was not immediately identified with a distinctive style.

Art Nouveau has emerged through the British art movement called the Arts and Crafts movement, which praised traditional craftsmanship over mass-produced elements of the industrial revolution.