MODERN ART

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Once , I painted something for school. It was very unusual painting, full of colours. I called it “Dream”. It didn`t make any sense for others. But it did for me. I put it on the wall. The day after, when I came to school, it was split. And they told me “Now you can dream about it!”. They also said that it is too easy to paint it and it doesn`t deserve to be on the wall.

So, now I am going to write about modern art.

Modern art refers to artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from 1860s to the 1970s and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art.

Modern art begins with the heritage of painters like Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec all of whom were essential for the development of modern art.

My favourite modern artist is Vincent van Gogh. He was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, and died largely unknown, at the age of 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Little appreciated during his lifetime, his fame grew in the years after his death. Today, he is widely regarded as one of history's greatest painters and an important contributor to the foundations of modern art. Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, and most of his best-known works were produced during his final two years. He produced more than 2,000 artworks, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. Although he was little known during his lifetime, his work was a strong influence on the modernist art that followed. Today many of his pieces—including his numerous self portraits, landscapes, portraits and sunflowers—are among the world's most recognizable and expensive works of art.


The Starry Night(June 1889.)

The way that he was using colours is incredible to me. His paintings are full of energy and life. The Starry Night is one of his best – known paintings and I love it.