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modern art
noun
- art that was produced in the late 1860s through the 1970s and that rejected traditionally accepted forms and emphasized individual experimentation and sensibility.
Word History and Origins
Origin of modern art1
Example Sentences
Just as Chuck Close’s enormous works of art loomed over their onlookers, his legacy looms large over the modern art world.
Since arriving in 2008, Kosinski has transformed the 100-year-old Dupont Circle museum, which bills itself as the nation’s first museum of modern art.
The researchers tried a few other methods of measuring illusory pattern perception — such as having participants try to detect patterns in abstract modern art paintings — and found similar results.
As an impresario of modern art, he persuaded Arnold & Porter to start an arts collection and decorated the office walls with paintings by artists of the Washington Color School.
Each short chapter takes the form of a different genre—stoner comedy, self-help bestseller, modern art.
The popular narrative is that Hitler and his Nazi regime thought all modern art was "degenerate."
In 1980, a retrospective of the artist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York captivated Hockney.
He was pivotal in the creation and survival of the Museum of Modern Art.
He began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.
Across Doel, traditional facades are painted with bright, modern art.
"He is the great unconscious humorist of modern art, also a great etcher," said Isabel, dryly.
But his pictures had no elaborate grouping, which is one of the excellences of modern art.
Nor is it a hard matter to assign probable causes of the perfection in this modern art.
Masaccio Sir Joshua considers to have been "one of the great fathers of modern art."
The Dutchmen from about 1620 to 1670 were the most active innovators and path-breakers of modern art along all these lines.
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