Main Characteristics of Modern Art

Modern Art is the set of artistic expressions that emerged in Europe at the end of the 19th century and lasted until the mid-20th century.

It especially embraces architecture, sculpture, literature and painting.

In Brazil, this artistic trend was consolidated with the Modern Art Week, which took place in 1922 at the Teatro Municipal in the city of São Paulo.

It is considered that modern art had its decline with the end of World War II, giving way to other artistic currents of contemporary or postmodern art.

Main Characteristics of Modern Art
Modern art has as its main characteristic the break with current standards. This aspect is mainly due to its historical moment.

It happened in a period of great technological achievements (such as the invention of photography and cinema), in addition to the Industrial Revolution, the First World War and later the Second World War.

Thus, art is also transformed and begins to play an increasingly challenging role, somehow expressing the uncertainties and dilemmas of contemporary times.

This artistic expression radically transformed the field of arts by breaking with formalisms, even reaching grammatical structures in the literary field.

Its main features are:
rejection of academicism
Informality
Freedom of expression
relative score
Approximation of popular and colloquial language
Deformed figures and scenes without logic
Abandonment of representing shapes realistically
Arbitrary use of colors
urbanism
humor, irreverence
estrangement