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

Curated in Denver by Clarisse Fava-Piz, formerly the museum’s associate curator of European and American Art before 1900 and now curator of modern art at the Phillips Collection, it displays 95 artworks drawn from his five-decade career.

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The painting of a well-dressed woman now ranks as the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction, pulling ahead of Amedeo Modigliani’s $157.2 million “Reclining Nude” from 1917 that Sotheby’s sold in 2018.

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But in Miss Penelope Lumley’s day, modern art had not yet been invented, and a painting of a sheep was universally expected to show legs, wool, and a fluffy tail.

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Abdoulaye N was previously a guard at the Center Pompidou in Paris, an arts centre containing Europe's largest museum of modern art.

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The family of a young boy who was left with life-threatening injuries after he was thrown from the 10th floor of London's Tate Modern art gallery have said their "little knight" has achieved his goal of being able to run, jump, and swim again.

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