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Keith Crown

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Rio Grande Gorge near Taos - 22.37x29.62 in., 1996

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Jade Fon

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"Lotus Bowl" - Chinatown S.F. 22x30 in., c. 1955

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Max Kuehne

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Washington Arch Panorama oil, 1912

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Rolph Scarlett

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36 x 24 Inches Each (3), 1947

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Keith Crown

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"Fifth Street Garden" 22 x 30 in., 1959

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Rolph Scarlett

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Expressionist Figures, c. 1952

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Jack Laycox

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Columbus Tower, San Francisco - 22x30 in., c. 1965

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Eugene (E.V. Biel) Biel

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Human Condition - o/c 48 x 60 inches, c. 1960

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Modern Art

Modernism in art is a term often used to describe a departure from the prevailing traditional art forms contemporaneous to a given time period - much the same way the impressionist movement of the late 1800’s was considered a radical departure from the classical art forms of the day, completely changing the way people thought about art. In this context, the 40,000-year-old, Paleolithic cave art, depicting stenciled hands, found in caves around the world, could be considered modern in its time.

Today, Modernism is largely defined as a historical art movement, typically associated with the cultural and philosophical trends that developed out of the revolt against the effects of the Industrial Revolution that transformed western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Industrial Revolution influenced every aspect of the Western world. Modernism rejected not only the traditional forms of art, it also revolted against the religious, literary, philosophical, scientific, social and political systems of the newly emerging industrialized world.

This technological shift, brought on by the industrial revolution, with its “soulless”, machine-made, production of cookie-cutter, objets du jour, created a yearning for tangible, handicraft in the arts that launched a myriad of art movements, such as Art Deco, Art & Crafts, Art Nouveau, and the like.

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism are among the “heritage” modernist art movements that laid the groundwork for the flourishing of numerous modernist visual art explorations - such as Fauvism, Futurism, Vorticism, Constructivism, Minimalism, Dadaism, Suprematism, and many others. The latter modernist movements are synonymous with work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s (Impressionism - Contemporary art periods). The very beginning of the 20th century marked a profusion of Modern artistic trends, with artists experimenting with innovative ways of portraying the vast expanse of fresh ideas about the “nature of materials and functions of art”. Modern art movements like Cubism, Surrealism, Non-Objective art, and others heralded in the apex of modern art – the New York School - where Abstract art - in all its forms, (Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction and Action Painting…) ruled the day. Postminimalism, Hard-edge painting, Conceptual art, Photorealism, Pop-art, Op-art and numerous other movements participating in modernism “attracted the attention of curators and critics” alike, while continually redefining the term. Modern art, by definition, saw the traditions of the past thrown aside in the spirit of artistic rebellion and experimentation.

Today, at the dawn of a new millennium, our physical, biological and technological worlds are literally morphing together through the exponential advances related to todays “technological revolution”. Just as “the Industrial Revolution influenced every aspect of the Western world”, technology is influencing every aspect of mankind today.  As the nature of artistic materials and the functionality of art is continually strained, no doubt, the definition of modernism will continue to radically evolve.

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