What Is Modern Art

What is Modern Art?

Modern Art is the movement when artists started thinking outside the box and experimenting more freely with their content, style, and imagery. Artists of this movement were often thought to be painting more through expression than through traditional methods. Now this is not to say that some artists in the modern art era were not trained in the traditional teachings of art, but instead of only painting portraits or landscapes; artists started to paint from their emotions.

Some of the most influential and well-noted artists in the world have been a part of this movement. I believe it to be the time when a more expressive type of art was beginning to be respected as “fine art,” rather than downplayed and not taken seriously. I personally believe that this type of art always has existed, however as previously mentioned it may have not been taken seriously. One example I can think of would be children’s finger painting. If framed and hung in a gallery no one would ever know it was done by a child. It would be regarded as “high art” given the right environment. It is not to say that the finger painting is not art, however I’m only trying to point out that there is little different between the two (no a days.) Many children in the past could have created abstract masterpieces with tomato sauce, dirt, or dyes for all we know. Being children they were probably not taken seriously as artists. Same goes for the poor families across the world. They may have created amazing art yet were not even looked at as equal by the high society so they remained undiscovered. Ironically now days any type of art most likely can succeed when placed in the right environment and concept behind it all.

I believe this to be the same for many of the Modern artists before the “modern art movement”. These artists started to introduce many new styles of painting. They did not always stick to the “paint as you see it” methods of traditional painting. Wild vivid colors and...