MODERN ART

Modern art is usually refers to works produced during the approximate period 1860's-1970's. Painting, sculpture, architecture, and graphic arts characteristic of the 20th and 21st centuries and of the later part of the 19th century. Modern art embraces a wide variety of movements, theories, and attitudes whose modernism resides particularly in a tendency to reject traditional, historical, or academic forms and conventions in an effort to create an art more in keeping with changed social, economic, and intellectual conditions. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. A tendency away from the narrative, which was characteristic for the traditional arts, toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art. There are many subject maters in this era. In Neoclassicism is about mythology, history and literature. In Romanticism is about landscapes, people, revolution, and peace. In Realism is about ordinary people and landscapes. In Post- Impressionism is about still life, portrait, exotic locations, landscapes and interior. In Impressionism is about nature, still life, scene in everyday life and the city of Paris. Modern art begins with the heritage of painters like Paul Cézanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Vincent van Gogh all of whom were essential for the development of modern art. Modern Art also witnessed the emergence of new media, like Photography.