Modern art

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For the psychedelic rock band, see The Modern Art. For the card game by Reiner Knizia, see Modern Art (game).

Dejeuner sur l'Herbe by Pablo Picasso

Modern art is a general term used for most of the artistic production from the late 19th century until approximately the 1970s. (Recent art production is more often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art). Modern art refers to the then new approach to art where it was no longer important to represent a subject realistically — the invention of photography had made this function of art obsolete. Instead, artists started experimenting with new ways of seeing, with fresh ideas about the nature, materials and functions of art, often moving further toward abstraction.

The notion of modern art is closely related to Modernism.

More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art

I and the Village by Marc Chagall, 1911

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, 1917

At the Moulin Rouge: Two Women Waltzing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892