Just as an exercise in taking an almost totally random approach to viewing some of the best pieces of art in the Modernist era, I have produced a video that highlights some of the best during the Modernist styles from Impressionism in the 1870s through to Bauhaus developments up to the 1960s.
The Covered Lane by Paul-Auguste Renoir
The Impressionists started a reaction against the orthodoxy by criticising the French Academy of Fine Arts because they consistently rejected their works by not allowing them into the Galleries. Eventually they created their own exhibition of "rejects". This started a lot of discussion about the hold that very traditional art "experts" were having on limiting creativity. It was also the start of Modernism - a movement to disrupt the centuries old stifling strangle hold on what was acceptable by a small elite of artists and dealers.
It was only a few years before art
of the Cubist style was acceptable
Cubism was such a startling move away from the Classical "Realism" of the pre 1870s. Georges Braques and Pablo Picasso worked in partnership to create a completely new approach to art - Cubism was born.
By 1927 the Bauhaus movement had made
Design and Art very close and Art was seen
as a way to influence the way people lived.
By the 1920s the De Stijl movements and Bauhaus had moved abstract artwork into the mainstream and popularised it. They built Bauhaus furniture, built Bauhaus buildings and created fonts for printing. It was Art for a purpose.
To see more pieces of artwork in this journey take a look at this short video :
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