What is it?

Modern art is a product of the past hundred years or so that usually consists of a painting or drawing, occasionally with some other media involved. Sometimes there are statues and even buildings, but not very often.

Perhaps the best way to think about modern art is as a type of sculpture, although that is not quite accurate either.

Why buy it?

Because modern art has appreciated in value over time, it has been called an investment. This can be misleading. While the value of all types of art have generally appreciated over time, there are many examples of types of art which have gone down in value, or even stopped appreciating. For example the value of paintings by Van Gogh rose almost fivefold between 2000 and 2008 before settling back to roughly where they had been. In contrast the value of abstract expressionist paintings had almost halved by then. So while in general works by famous artists tend to increase in value over time, there are no guarantees. Furthermore, if you intend to buy modern art as an investment rather as an appreciation of its beauty, you should be aware that many people do not consider modern art beautiful or even all that interesting aesthetically, so you may have trouble selling what you buy to someone who does appreciate it later

I am not an art critic, but I do have my own professional opinion to offer. Modern art is the most useful investment for a serious collector. It is the closest thing to a sure thing in the art world today.

And those are strong words in this day and age, when it seems like more than half of what is sold at auction doesn’t get paid for. But you have to understand how and why it works before you can believe it.

Like many things, modern art started out as a con job—but unlike most cons, this one has worked brilliantly over time and gotten better and better at it.

This is not just some snobby insider’s opinion, either; anyone can see that the con works. The artists involved all make millions; their galleries sell paintings for millions (which they then take off their hands by giving them away to museums—but that’s another story); their collectors are mostly rich people from all over the world; their dealers are rich too; and no one ever goes to jail for it. What we call “modern” art is just about the only way anyone can get away with making money in the arts these days, except for pop stars who do nothing but sing over other people’s tracks and bankers who do nothing but

Art has to be a big word. It is not just a painting, or a drawing. It is something that has to do with the viewer and the artist. A great piece of art can last for decades and it makes you feel like you have been born again, even when you look at it for the first time.

It is not just a pretty painting, it is something that needs an explanation, you have to understand it by yourself. It does mean something, but what exactly? Modern art is like a new language that we need to learn to understand as we go along with time.

When talking about modern art we can talk about its history: who started it when and why? Or about the techniques used in order to create such kind of pieces of art? We can also talk about who are the most important artists in this genre. The most famous ones are probably Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp; there are also Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí, among others.

The most important thing is to know how to distinguish between real art and fake; there are loads of people out there who try to get rich by selling paintings they have done themselves, or copies of great works of art that they find on the internet.

There are many ways

The purpose of this essay is to briefly explain what “modern art” is, why some people collect it, and what to do if you are thinking of becoming a collector.

The best way to understand modern art is to think of it as the most recent manifestation of the same kind of impulse that produced cave paintings and Egyptian architecture. Modern artists have taken this impulse as far as they feel they possibly can, and they will continue to do so until they are forced by social or economic pressures to stop. Understanding this makes it possible to predict with a certain confidence what will happen next in the world of modern art.

It is not necessary to understand any of this in order to enjoy modern art. If you want to like it, you should do so purely on aesthetic grounds, the same way you might enjoy a melody or a color combination or a well-made play. But if you want to understand it–and if you want people who already understand it to take you seriously–you need this background information.

Modern Art – What is it?

Art that is made in the period of time between the impressionism and the postmodernism. It’s style is mainly based on minimalism, abstract expressionism and conceptual art. The movement started in the second half of 19th century and lasted till the mid-20th century. The main reason for its creation was the development of European society during those years. It included industrialization, urbanization, rationalization, mass production and so on. All this caused many changes in people’s mentality. There were two types of reaction to these changes: 1) conservative one which thought that mankind should stick to tradition values, which are reflected in postimpressionism and 2) avant-garde one which welcomed these changes, reflected in modern art style.

Modern art broke with all previous traditions and rules of painting. Artists didn’t care about composition, perspective or even the human body proportions anymore. They wanted to concentrate on feelings and emotions that they wanted to transmit through their art pieces. They wanted their audience to feel them directly via senses not brain…

Modern art became a kind of protest against established values, against capitalism, against materialism and rationalism. The artists didn’t want to be slaves of money anymore like bourgeoisie society

“Modern art,” by the way, is a term that’s mostly used by people who don’t know much about modern art. If you want to be a connoisseur, you should feel free to call it contemporary art or postmodern art or, if you’re feeling slightly formal, avant-garde art.

Taste in painting is partly a matter of being familiar with the relevant kinds of pictures. If you were raised in an environment where all the walls were covered with flat expanses of crimson paint, and you never saw any other kind of painting, you would probably like and appreciate crimson paint. And if you are unfamiliar with any examples of abstract art, your reaction to it will be very different from someone who grew up surrounded by it.

A lot of people encounter their first piece of abstract art on an introductory college course. They think they hate it—it’s weird and ugly, they say. But then they have to write an essay on it, and they read up on it a bit as well. And suddenly what was weird and ugly becomes interesting and compelling. That’s not because their taste has changed; it’s because now they can see what’s in front of them.