Origins of Modern Art : Masterworks of Modernism from Monet to Kandinsky, Delaunay, Turner & Klee._Rosalind Ormiston_9781783616107_Flame Tree Publishing

Author: Rosalind Ormiston

Format:  Hardback | 192 pages

Dimensions: 279 x 289 x 22mm | 1,706g

Publication date:  06 Oct 2015

The tender roots of Modern Art can be seen in the wild sea paintings of Turner, as early as the mid 19th Century, but it took the Impressionists and the Pre-Raphaelites to break the elite classical mode, until the final blows were dealt in the early 1900s by Kandinsky, Klee and Picasso. Modern Art was a reaction to the gathering pace of industrialisation of the late Victorian world, and the desire for art that looked forwards not behind to classical myth and legend. But once the beast of modernism had been unleashed it fragmented into many different forms, each of which are explored in this striking, heavily illustrated new book.