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

Alfred Barr, the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, thought of its collection as “metabolic” or “self-renewing.”

From The Wall Street Journal

What makes the Museum of Modern Art different from pretty much any other museum before it?

From The Wall Street Journal

If a historical museum uses a telescope to look at history, so that it puts you in relationship to objects that are distant from you—decades and centuries, and even millennia—the Museum of Modern Art looks at the present with a microscope.

From The Wall Street Journal

I like to think that the role of a modern art museum is to be that space precisely between the immediate past and the future.

From The Wall Street Journal

She’s been creating powerful, thought-provoking artwork since the ’60s and her pieces have been shown at the Smithsonian, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and LACMA, as well as museums and galleries around the world.

From Los Angeles Times