modern art

American  

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.

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Etymology

Origin of modern art

First recorded in 1800–10, for an earlier sense

Example Sentences

"Today, not only are we catching up with the West, but we have surpassed it in many aspects of daily life," Witucki said, not far from gleaming skyscrapers and a new site for the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, designed by US architect Thomas Phifer.

From Barron's

Plans for the building became an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

From Barron's

Occasionally, however, as with the subject of the Museum of Modern Art’s “Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream”—a full-dress retrospective comprising more than 130 paintings, drawings, prints, ephemera, illustrated books, ceramics and large-scale works on paper—learning at least a little about Lam’s multiethnic, multicultural life story offers entry into his exotic oeuvre.

From The Wall Street Journal

Modern ART is highly effective at suppressing HIV to undetectable levels.

From Science Daily

The design would stand out from other new stadiums around the world, many of which look like experimental modern art projects.

From The Wall Street Journal