Modern Art is a classification that covers all art created between 1860
and 1970, and all the major artistic movements during the same period
(Impressionism, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Expressionism, Art Nouveau, Art
Deco, Photography as art, pop art, minimalism, etc.) under its umbrella
wide.
Modern art is a field that has taught extensively in many
creative institutions today, as it allows students to some of the most
extensive and inspiration of how to express their individual artistic
impulses in a variety of applications and media.
Several
schools in the U.S. to adopt the traditions, techniques and spirit of
modern art to tell their students the historical context of modern art
and how its pushed the boundaries of what is considered art.
Practitioners
of modern art were pioneers and rebels dismiss or question the
traditions and aesthetics of the previous centuries (classical,
Renaissance, etc.) and experimented with revolutionary and revolutionary
ways and means of seeing the world around them stating that painting,
sculpture and new forms of art (ie photography), the use of new
materials and techniques never before used, and found a new meaning in
the general purpose and function of art.
The so-called founding
fathers of the modern movement includes a pantheon of great artists and
their work - Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne
(Impressionism) and Georges Seurat (pointillism) - to name a few, each
made a personal vision, aesthetics and style that is now considered the
initial entries in the world of this artistic movement.
From
late 1890 to 1930, there was an explosion of schools of thought that
informed the art scene in Europe and the United States that helped spawn
the new art movements and groups. During this period the world
witnessed the emergence of such giants as Picasso heavyweight (for the
first time in Cubism and his own amusement impressive), Dali, Man Ray
and Buñuel (surrealism), and Munch, El Greco, Kandinksy (expression).
These artists and many contemporary figures and movements that defined
many emotions to explore new creative expression.
After the
Second World War "culture put on pause", became the United States the
epicenter of most of the new artistic movements and a large number of
art styles and traditions emerged in the years 1950 and 1960. As the
1970s came to close, the art critic Douglas Crimp proclaimed "The End of
Painting" in a confrontation assay, and therefore the period known as
modern art came to close.
Although some would argue that modern
art argues for a break from the traditions and classifications of art,
art schools can prepare students with extensive and the foundation from
which they can "break the rules" and have the freedom to create without
limits or restrictions. There are numerous art academies, such as San
Francisco art schools around the country that can provide a solid
foundation for the practice of modern art.
