The Origins of Modern Art

In the Renaissance, painters sought to accurately depict real life. After this period, however, painters began to create artwork based on feeling, mood, and subjective vision. What engendered this movement of modern art? Discussed in this episode: The differences between Renaissance paintings and modern art paintings, how the Enlightenment shaped modern art, key traits of a modern art painting, the role of economic changes in Western Europe in the development of modern art, the development of the modern art movement with the foundation of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), counter-cultural tones in modern art, Gustave Courbet’s Realism as an early rebellion against the established forces of academicism in art, Édouard Manet's pioneering influence on modern art, the role of photography in the development of modern art, and Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night."

 

Supplementary materials available on website ("A Burial At Ornans" by Gustave Courbet (1849-1850), "Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket" by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1875), "Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe" by Édouard Manet (1863), and "The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh (1889)).

 

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