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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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Words nearby modern art

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How to use modern art in a sentence

Just as Chuck Close’s enormous works of art loomed over their onlookers, his legacy looms large over the modern art world.
How a TIME Art Critic Covered Chuck Close Across the Decades|Andrew R. Chow|August 20, 2021|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.
Longtime Phillips Collection director Dorothy Kosinski to leave at end of 2022|Peggy McGlone|July 22, 2021|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.
Why People Fall For Conspiracy Theories|Kaleigh Rogers|June 15, 2021|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.
James F. Fitzpatrick, lawyer and lobbyist at Arnold & Porter, dies at 88|Louie Estrada|February 17, 2021|Washington Post

Each short chapter takes the form of a different genre—stoner comedy, self-help bestseller, modern art.
Everything Our Editors Loved in January|The Editors|February 4, 2021|Outside Online
We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.
How Pulp Fiction Saved Literature|Wendy Smith|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
How Pulp Fiction Saved Literature|Wendy Smith|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”
Here’s the Lost Judd Apatow ‘Simpsons’ Episode, Penned by Judd Apatow|Asawin Suebsaeng|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.
Democrats Accidentally Save Boehner From Republican Coup|Ben Jacobs, Jackie Kucinich|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The east window in this church has been classed as the A1 of modern painted windows.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
Many of these have been seen in the Corcoran Art Gallery and in other public exhibitions.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Adequate conception of the extent, the variety, the excellence of the works of Art here heaped together is impossible.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
So it commands the other sciences in all the wonderful and hidden things of nature and art (pp. 510-511).
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor