History of Modern Art

Many people fall in love with the antique art pieces. In fact, in
every artifact, you can find a beautiful meaning that is
portrayed in the form of a painting. Basically, modern art was
produced during the year 1870 to 1970. There are many
artists who love to do modern art. In fact, there are many
institutes who offer modern art courses for the interested
candidates. The modern artists have refrained using the bygone
traditions in painting and did a lot of experiments in producing
stupendous paintings that are commendable. They tried different
forms of paintings using unique techniques, different materials,
and developed new theories on how actually art should portray
the world and what all things that an artist have to perceive in
order to reflect exactly his thoughts on the painting board.
Moreover, during 180 to 1970, there are umpteen art forms
were being developed. As per the history, the modern art was
observed by a Frenchman called Edouard Manet during the
18th century. But, it was believed that the modern art was
started before Frenchman by Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, as
the arts drew by these people lack traditional academic art
form in between 18 and 19th century. After Pre-Raphaelites,
there are different amendments and movements took place in
the art world. And, those path breaking movements include Art
Nouveau, Cubism, Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Dada,
Surrealism, and Pop-Art, Orphism, Social Realism, Op-Art,
Feminist art, etc. In fact, the modern art also gave birth to a
medium called photography that is taking the art world by
storm in today's era. Apart from photography, the other art
forms that are developed in the recent times include animation,
collage, cinematography, etc. However, modern art has no trend
to categorize it, but was developed after cubism in terms of
abstract art, i.e. painting and sculpture. In today's era, modern
art is being explored in different forms such as Constructivism,
Suprematism, Colour Field, Op-Art, etc. Basically, many of the
modern artists will reject the past art as they believe that those
arts do not help in the development of new art forms and do
not help the new artists in any way. Moreover, industrial
revolution gave new ideas for the artists and they are evincing
interest in bringing the change in the way they paint the fine
arts. Moreover, modern art is considered to be much closer to
the modern life over art in the bygone era. In fact, the artists
portraying their views about the world is being better
represented in modern art over the art in the preceding
centuries. There are many different kinds of art styles that are
being defined during 1860 to 1960 and it is quite cumbersome
for the people to find which art has actually defined the
modern art. The key difference between modern artists and the
traditionalists is that, self-belief. Basically, art is being valued and
appreciated by the people, if it portrays some important values
of life.
We will be discussing about the history of modern art including
modern art movements in detail.