The Modern Art Movement. Much and Quickly

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Edouard Manet "Olympia" 1863


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Claude Monet "Water Lillies" 1914


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Paul Cezanne "Apples and Oranges" 1906


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Paul Gauguin "Vision After the Sermon" 1988


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Henri Matisse, "The Dance," 1910


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Vincent van Gogh "Starry Night" 1889


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Vasily Kandinsky "Sketch for Composition II" 1910


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Pablo Picasso "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon" 1907


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Marcel Duchamp "The Bride Stripped Bare" 1915-1923


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Piet Mondrian "Compostion A" 1920


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Salvator Dali "The Dream", 1931


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Georgia O'Keeffe "White Trumpet Flower"


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Louise Bourgeois "Janus Fleuri", 1968


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Frida Kahlo, "Self Portrait With Monkeys", 1943


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Photograph of Jackson Pollock by Hans Namuth, 1950.


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Jasper Johns. "Map", 1971


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Helen Frankenthaler, "Mountains and Sea", 1952

Lasting about a century,the Modern Art Movement began with the industrialization of Western Europe and the United States in the late 1800's and lasted until the 1970's. Early in the movement, as work became less agricultural and more in the realm of manufacturing, daily experiences and possibilities for the future changed dramatically. People's daily lives altered as cities, wealth and free time grew. With more people able to afford to buy art, live in the vicinity of a museum or gallery and read city papers and journals, art began to cater to a wider audience and mirror its modern sensibilties. Modern Art reflected progressive ideas of social criticism, the mechanization of the environment, and a movement away from tradition with abstraction. Equally influential to society, industry and art during this movement, were the two World Wars. Life became faster and faster paced; industry continued to grow, transportation boomed with the invention of the steam engine, the automobile and the plane. Photography was born, then film, then television. In response to the many changes, Modern works became more colorful or expressive, its subjects became flat and less realistic or abstract entirely. The list of artists associated with this movement is long, a few highlights are: Edouard Manet,Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Vasily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dali, Georgia O'Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollack, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler. A few of the main critics of this movement were: Cubism's Apollinaire, Clement Greenberg spanning from the 1940's to the 70's, Henry Geldzahler from the Museum of Modern Art.