Modern art

Modern art is the generic term used to designate most of the artistic production of the end of the Century XIX to middles of the years 1970 (although there is not consent on those dates), while the most recent production of the art is frequently called contemporary art (some prefer to call of powder-modern art). The modern art refers to a new abordagem of the art in one moment in which not more it was important that she represented a subject or object literally (through the painting and of the sculpture)--the coming of the picture did with that there was a drastic decrease in the demand for certain traditional artistic ways, the painting especially. Instead of that, and it is there that the idea of modern begins to take form, the artists start to try new visions, through unpublished ideas about the nature, the materials and the functions of the art, and frequently walking in direction to the abstraction.
The notion of modern art is estreitamente related with the modernism.
During the first decades, the modern art was a fenómeno exclusively European. The first seeds of modern ideas in the art came from the artists that worked in the romantic and the realists' movements. Soon after, representatives of the impressionism and powder-impressionism tried beginning with the new ways of representing the light and the space through the color and of the painting. In the years pré-i World War of the century XX, a creative explosion happened with fauvismo, cubism, expressionism and futurism.
I World War brought an end to this phase, but it indicated the beginning of a number of movements anti-art, as given and Marcel Duchamp's work, and of the surrealismo. Also, the artists' groups as of Stijl and Bauhaus they were seminal in the development of new ideas on the interrelação of the arts, of the architecture, of the project and of the instruction of the art.
Modern art was introduced in America during to I World War when a number of artists of Montmartre and Montparnasse neighborhoods of Paris, France escaped from the war. Francis Picabia (1879–1953), it was the responsible of bringing the Modern Art for the city of New York. It only went after to II World War, although, that the USA changed the focal point of new artistic movements. The decades of 1950 and 1960 saw to emerge the expressionism abstract, pop art, op art and minimum art; Between 1960 and 1970, art of the earth, art of the acting, conceptual art and Fotorealismo emerged.
In lathe of that period, a number artists and of architects they began to reject the idea of " the modern " and it created powder-modern works typically.
Leaving of the period postwar, few artists used painting as its preliminary middle.