When was modern art invented?

Answer 1

Still waiting for that to happen.

But if you want a marker in time: Most historians have picked the creation of this painting from 1907 as the beginning of modern art (or the first exhibition in 1916):
Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Demoiselles_d'Avignon

This means 'modern art' is 100 years old.......that is why there are many other, more modern modern art moments. Since the 70's they call stuff contemporary or postmodern...what's in a name?

Answer 2

Cezanne was the first artist to break up the surface into planes and look at Nature in an abstract geometric way. His paintings led directly to Cubism. Picasso, Braque, and Juan Gris.

Then there was another vein. Kandinsky who was getting into symbolic and literary style at just the same time in Russia.

Slightly earlier the Impressionists had freed paintings from being about someone or some thing with their intense studies of light. This turned a painting into a thing, rather than a story or a souvenir of a place or event. At the end of Impressionism there were the two famous painters VanGogh and Gaugin. They are also making paintings that are about surface and emotion. Their work is the beginning of Expressionist Art... art that is emotional. Expressionism leads straight to Jackson Pollack, de Kooning, and Franz Kline.

There were a couple of other important things going on in the art world at that time that contributed to "Modern Art." There was Art Nouveau (with painters like Odilon Redon, and Rosseau breaking new ground) and that design was hip and everywhere, in art, sculpture, and architecture. There was also a great deal of Japanese art about, with it's strong linear design. And there was a cool club scene. Coffee, strong liquor, romance, trains, travel, photography.

Answer 3

Labeling and categorizing art is a tough business. All the dates are flexible. Modern art wasn't really "invented". The work I think you're referring to was created around the turn of the century up until the mid-century. Put "Modern Art" into a Wikipedia search.

Answer 4

The First Painting Which Started The Whole Modern Movement in Art is recognised as Triggering The Whole Impressionist Movement
J.M.W. Turner`s Rain,Steam, and Speed.
Here is The Picture in Question
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/turner/paintings/speed.html
below is W. M. Thackerays Critique of It

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wmt/turner1.html

Answer 5

Arthur Dove is credited with the creation of the first American Abstract painting, although, that in and of itself does not describe when Modern Art came into play.

Technically, Modern Art finds its roots in the late 19th century with the Impressionist's, Post Impressionists and to a certain extent the symbolist's.

Realistically it was with the Fauvist, Cubist, Expressionist and Futurist Artists that Modern Art came to be.

The Armory Show of 1913 in New York introduced Modern Art to the United States along with the latter immigration of European Artists to the U.S. mostly as a result of the latter two World Wars.

Modern Art is considered to have continued until the Early 1960's when Post-Modernism superseded it, which was brought about by various historic/political events.

Answer 6

When Marcel Duchamp donated a urinal to the Society of Independent artists in 1917. He called it 'Fountain' and everyone celebrated its satirical wit and daring. Unfortunately, every art school graduate has been dining out on the idea ever since - ironically, modern art was strangled at birth it seems.

Answer 7

When art moved away from realism due to the invention of the camera.

The impressionists were the first major group.

We see Monet as part of the establishment now but in his time he was a shocking radical!

Answer 8

Around 1865, beginning with "The Rock Breakers" by Gustave Courbet

Answer 9

Perhaps the most famous exponent of 'modern art' is Andy Worhol, who once said that 'everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame'. Have you had yours yet? Had mine in court 25 years ago, a witness in a murder trial at the Old Bailey here in London.

Modern art started with the French Impressionists.

Here in England after WW2, Sutherland did an oil painting a portrait of Winston Churchill. Winston just hated it, but very kindly in his acceptance speech of the painting described it as a shining example of modern art. After Winston died in c1964, his wife burnt the painting.

Well, that's one example of what people think of modern art.

Here in London, one of our major galleries, Tate Modern, on the South Bank opposite St. Paul's, is often described as a gallery full of modern art.


Modern Art - there's a lot of it about : -

art - Wikipedia, Campbell's Soup Cans 1962 Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm), by Andy Warhol, Museum of Modern Art, ...
http:/www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Art

Stuart Shave/Modern ArtARTISTS · EXHIBITIONS · NEWS · PUBLICATIONS · CONTACT. img, img, spc. img. PREVIOUS UPCOMING.
http://www.stuartshavemodernart.com

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Modern ArtExtensive collection of more than 10000 works of modern art, including painting, sculpture, design, and architecture representing the major artistic ...
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=21

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Welcome to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the only museum in the western United States devoted to collecting and exhibiting the full scope of ...
http://www.sfmoma.org

Modern art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia1 History of Modern art. 1.1 Roots in the 19th century; 1.2 Early 20th Century; 1.3 After World War II. 2 Criticism; 3 Art movements and artist groups ...
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art

Answer 10

It was invented by Charlie Chaplin (his well-known movie) or by arts critics who did not know how to deceive the snobs who would buy.