modernist art
Twentieth-century visual experimentation
Modernist art refers to artistic movements from roughly the 1860s through the 1970s that broke with traditional forms and techniques.
Characterized by experimentation, abstraction, and rejection of conventional representation, it encompasses movements like Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism.
The museum's modernist art collection features works by Picasso and Kandinsky.
Distinguished from contemporary art, which follows it chronologically.
- Abstract ExpressionismGestural, nonrepresentational American painting movement
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- art nouveauOrnate organic decorative style
- DadaAbsurdist artistic rebellion
found object · Futurism · machine age · Marcel Duchamp · Salvador Dalí · Surrealism · Minimalism · color field · Piet Mondrian · James Joyce · stream of consciousness · Virginia Woolf · Kazimir Malevich · Henri Matisse · Suprematism · Gertrude Stein · Pablo Picasso · Industrial Revolution
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- art museumspaintings, The Louvre, galleries, permanent collection, exhibitions
- illustrationpainting, drawing, watercolor, sketch, charcoal
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
- avant-gardeDada, Dadaism, Futurism, Constructivism, Cabaret Voltaire
- Canadian ArtCanadian landscapes, indigenous art, landscape painting, Canadian wilderness
modernist artclassical art
Ancient Greek and Roman works
Beaux-Arts · neoclassical art · traditional art · Renaissance art · Victorian art
modernist artfigurative art
Art depicting recognizable subjects
photorealism · trompe-l'oeil · realist art · decorative art · narrative art
modernist artpostmodern art
Creative work questioning modernism's assumptions