Modern Art

Modern Art Essay
Modernism refers to a series of successive art movements and the particular artistic tendencies that unite them. It also refers to the era that included the omission of previous art styles and a rebellion against the past.
Van Gogh was a significant figure in the modernism era, as was Edouard Manet, who was considered to be the “Father of Modern Art” in his own right.
Modernism began as a European phenomenon and its roots can be traced back to the romanticism and realism of the 19th Century.
Modernist art is not, as is sometimes wrongly perceived, the art of today, (art done by living artists is called contemporary art), it is said to have ended sometime between the mid 1950’s and early 1980’s. The end of this era signified the beginning of an even more perplexing movement, Post-Modernism.
During the Modernist era many modern times emerged and what followed was a succession of interesting and completely different periods for art. For example the I...