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

In my rare visits to modern art museums, I mumble: “This piece represents an indictment of societal norms.”

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Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset called modern art, way back in 1925, “antipopular.”

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Maybe modern art doesn’t lead toward utopia, but there’s an important place in our world for nonconformists.

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In New York, this month brings a wealth of opportunities to appreciate the fruits of these labors, principally at the Museum of Modern Art’s annual festival of film preservation, “To Save and Project.”

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And he came of age in the long shadow of modern art’s towering and, he felt, likely terminal -isms.

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