When began Modern Art?

What year did modern art begin?

The year when Edouard Manet (1832-83) displayed his provocative and irreverent painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe in the Salon des Refuses in Paris is typically considered as the beginning of "modern art" as being 1863. It is regarded as one of the most scandalous paintings of the day, despite Manet's reverence for the Académie Française and the fact that Raphael served as an inspiration for the Renaissance.

1863 Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe @ Musee d 'Orsay

However, it was only a metaphor for more significant changes occurring in other nations and creative forms, in France and throughout Europe. A new generation of "Modern Artists" grew weary of imitating the established academic art styles of the 18th and early 19th centuries and started producing a variety of "Modern Paintings" based on fresh ideas, novel mediums, and audacious new techniques. Fine art painting turned out to be the first significant battleground between the traditionalists and the new "moderns" despite the fact that sculpture and architecture were also influenced, and over time their alterations would be far more revolutionary.

What defines modern art as its primary feature?

What we now refer to as "modern art" was created over the course of a century by numerous individuals. Art trends cover a wide range of styles, from hyperrealism to pure abstraction, from Dada and Fluxus anti-art schools to traditional painting and sculpture, and from Art Nouveau to Bauhaus and Pop Art. It is difficult to identify a defining trait that characterizes the age because of how diverse it was. The conviction that art matters, however, is what distinguishes contemporary artists from earlier traditionalists and later postmodernists. They place a genuine value on art. Their precedents, in contrast, just presumptively assumed its value. They had merely "followed the rules" since they had lived in a period when Christian value systems were in place. The so-called "postmodernists" who emerged after the modern era (starting in 1970) primarily rejected the notion that art (or life) had intrinsic meaning.

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