modern art

noun

1. 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

First recorded in 1800–10, for an earlier sense

Example Sentences

Just as Chuck Close’s enormous works of art loomed over their onlookers, his legacy looms large over the modern art world.

From Time

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.

From Washington Post

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.

From FiveThirtyEight

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.

From Washington Post

Each short chapter takes the form of a different genre—stoner comedy, self-help bestseller, modern art.

From Outside Online

The popular narrative is that Hitler and his Nazi regime thought all modern art was "degenerate."

From The Daily Beast

In 1980, a retrospective of the artist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York captivated Hockney.

From The Daily Beast

He was pivotal in the creation and survival of the Museum of Modern Art.

From The Daily Beast

He began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.

From The Daily Beast

Across Doel, traditional facades are painted with bright, modern art.

From The Daily Beast

"He is the great unconscious humorist of modern art, also a great etcher," said Isabel, dryly.

From Project Gutenberg

But his pictures had no elaborate grouping, which is one of the excellences of modern art.

From Project Gutenberg

Nor is it a hard matter to assign probable causes of the perfection in this modern art.

From Project Gutenberg

Masaccio Sir Joshua considers to have been "one of the great fathers of modern art."

From Project Gutenberg

The Dutchmen from about 1620 to 1670 were the most active innovators and path-breakers of modern art along all these lines.

From Project Gutenberg