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The Development of Modern Art

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ART

Modern art ' is not to be taken to mean the art of the present day and age ' as its connotative sense suggests (the art of the present day and age is contemporary ' or postmodern ' art . Modern art has diverse definitions and is therefore regarded differently by different people . For instance , Modern art is thought to embrace art of the twentieth-century Western world , or such arts as have been influenced by it it is considered a term that can be applied to all Western or Western-inspired art . from

about 1900 onwards but which is generally used more specifically to designate forms of visual expression from this period that are consciously in tune with progressive aesthetic attitudes (Microsoft Encarta Standard Encyclopedia 2005 . Further in the Encyclopedia , we find In the second sense , Modern Art represents a breakaway from the historical revivalism that had characterized much 19th-century art and a repudiation of many ideals and assumptions that had prevailed since the Renaissance ' Still , another definition has it as art created from the 19th cent . to the mid-20th cent . by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting , sculpture , and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (The Columbia Encyclopedia 2004

For the purpose of this writing , however , the general definition of the phrase will be used

Art since the beginning of the 20th century when a series of revolutionary movements fundamentally changed the way artists saw and represented the world (Ibid ( Contemporary art ' can , therefore , be taken as art that came into existence in recent times or that began long ago but has been modified by present-day development and sophistication

In the birth and development of modern art , Paris was , before World War II , the principal focus because many of the leading figures in the modern art were resident there . Several other countries , too , played prominent roles in its development . Germany , for instance , was the center and origin of Expressionism (an artistic style of distorting reality for expressive , emotional effect , while Russia originated various kinds of abstract arts (a form of art which does not accurately represent reality

In considering the development of modern art , this writing will touch two basic classes of art : painting and sculpture (While the development of modern art went on , most painters and sculptures were uninfluenced by the trends of this development and kept to the traditional modes of doing things (A ) PAINTING : Towards the end of the 19th century , avant-garde painters showed less interest in realism ( the depiction of facts and realities rather than imaginary objects ' [Wikipedia] .They tended towards greater personal freedom of expression in their paintings Increasingly , they created works that were distortions of reality . By the dawn of the 20th century , younger generations of painters engaged in greater anti-realism practices , and their paintings showed even greater distortions in line , color and pictorial space . These unconventional approaches soon led to the coming into existence of revolutionary movements which transformed painting , bringing what some...

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