According to many art historians, the adventure of modern art began in the 1870s in Paris, when a group of artists, the Impressionists, began to paint with rapid and imprecise brush strokes. Instead of bombastic heroic scenes, they portrayed everyday life and fled from the influence of the traditional circle of gallery owners by organizing their own exhibitions.
Once the academic principles were overcome, nothing could stop them. In a constant desire to challenge, innovate and inspire, new artistic styles followed one another: Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Abstract Art, Renewed Realism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalist Art and Conceptual Art.
This essential compendium illustrates the irrepressible energy of modern art (from 1870 to 2000) through the introductory analysis and the enumeration, year by year, of the most revolutionary works of art, those that, breaking down barriers, put the established canons in check. . With detailed descriptions of the works and their artists and reviews of the most relevant and influential movements.
Hard cover
14 x 19.5cm
696 pages
