The Museum of Modern Art, also known as MoMA, was the first museum to devote its collection entirely to the modern movement. The museum was founded in 1929 by three public citizens, Lillie P. Bliss, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. The works in the museum collection date from the 1...

In the early twentieth-century, art became a form of expression through personal experiences, nature, and visual aspects of the world. Early modern artists expanded and broadened the image and value of art. They explored different styles of art that merged painting and sculpture and left no border...

~Part 1~Cubism and Fauvism were one of the most influential modern arts of the 20th century. Cubism was developed by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and French artist Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. Picasso and Braque found examples and initial concepts of cubism in two art sources. The ...

Modernist Art in Europe 1910-25 by Robert l. HerbertHerbert's thesis of his essay is to investigate the arrival of the machine and modern art and its complexities. During WWI, modernist painting and sculpture paid major attention to machinery, science and industry. Modern art during that time has...

The atmosphere in the Museum of Modern Art was very tranquil - the lights aren\'t too bright, and the wall itself looked like a piece of artwork. I\'d been walking around the museum for a while and I finally saw a painting that was what I\'d been expecting to find. It was located in a big room with ...

Henri Matisse's painting Purple Robe and Anemones, from 1937, hangs in the Baltimore Museum of Art. This painting depicts his model Lydia Delectorskaya in a purple robe with a vase of anemones in the foreground. Matisse did not intend to capture his subject realistically. Instead, the painting ...

Henri Matisse and Fernand Leger were two of the most influential artists of the Twentieth Century. Their styles, though very different, came from similar beginnings. Both of these artists took their beginnings and used them into a new world for art. Two examples of their unique styles are Matisse\'s...

Paul Cezanne, who was the son of a wealthy banker, became a painter in the 1860s in Paris when he quit his studies of Law. By 1874 he was painting landscapes in the Impressionist manner and had some of his work included in their first exhibition held during that very same year.He painted in the Impr...