Modern art

Modern art

A movement in fine arts (starting from the mid-1800s) in which the styles, attitudes and subject-matter began to differ from those of traditional art.

Industry: Arts & crafts

Add a new term

Contributors in Modern art

Become a Contributors

Modern art

Die Brücke (the Bridge)

Arts & crafts; Modern art

Artist group active in Dresden, Germany, from 1905 to 1913, and closely associated with the development of Expressionism. The group is associated with an interest in the distortion of reality and ...

Diptych

Arts & crafts; Modern art

A work of art made up of two parts, usually hinged together.

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

A piece of artwork created by Caleb Larson that is impossible to collect. It is a black box measuring eight cubic inches, completely featureless except for an ethernet port at its rear. Once somebody ...

Persians

Arts & crafts; Modern art

'The Persians started out as a search for new forms. I set up Martin Blank and Robbie Miller in a corner of the hotshop at Pilchuck. I would make large pencil drawings for them with a couple of dozen ...

Niijima Floats

Arts & crafts; Modern art

Chihuly first filled boats with glass in Nuutajärvi , Finland , during the Chihuly Over Venice project in 1995. On the tiny island of Niijima , Japan , Osamu and Yumiko Noda, former students at ...