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

After several of his own run-ins with Cooper, Alfred Barr Jr., the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, judged him to be filled with “unbridled malice.”

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Whether in the unparalleled collection he built or in his barbed writings, his daring exhibition work, his connections to artists or his relentless tutoring of several generations of the cultural elite, the authors suggest that the “beast” was also a pioneering interpreter of modern art—a man who aspired to be, and in some ways was, to the French avant-garde what Bernard Berenson was to the Italian Renaissance.

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It has been instrumental in turning Milan into an art capital, said Nicola Ricciardi, the artistic director of Miart, the city’s annual contemporary and modern art fair.

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With ample resources, the Dutch fought for and won independence from Habsburg Spain, the world’s most powerful empire, while also helping to launch the Enlightenment and create modern art.

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For all their differences, all the creatives represented have at least one thing in common, Bonsu says - "fashioning radical visions of what modern art could be".

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