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.

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Omnigraph

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The object responsible for the transformation of ideas into tangible reality. Originating from the latin term "omni" (meaning 'everything') and the latin root "graph" (meaning 'to write'), we may ...

School of Athens

Arts & crafts; Modern art

The School of Athens (or Scuola di Atene in Italian) was one of Raphael's commissions in the Stanze di Raffaello in the Vatican. The School of Athens is considered Raphael's master artwork and is ...

American Gothic

Arts & crafts; Modern art

American Gothic was inspired by the Dibble House in Iowa. Wood saw its Gothic architectural style and decided to paint the house along with the kind of people he imagined might live in it. The ...

Las Meninas, or The Maids of Honor, depicts a room in the Madrid palace of Spain's King Philip IV. The painting is famous for its complexities regarding reality and illusion. Uncertainty is played ...

The Night Watch

Arts & crafts; Modern art

Rembrandt's painting of a city guard led by Captain Frans Banning Cocq moving out is famous for three reasons: its large size of 11'10" x 14'4", effective utilization of chiaroscuro (light and shadow ...

Whistler's Mother

Arts & crafts; Modern art

James McNeill Whistler painted his mother, Anna McNeill Whistler, when the original model failed to come to the appointment. The painting was not well-received when he submitted it to the Royal ...

The Scream

Arts & crafts; Modern art

In a series of paintings reproduced with various media known as Scream, Edvard Munch conveys an extremely anxious and trembling person standing at the fenced edge of a road. The scene was identified ...