Modern art (Modernism) is a term applied to most of the art of the 20th century, to distinguish it from art of earlier periods. Art created in this century is actually Post-Modern.
True but also modern art began around the 1850's and 2000's. Mostly modern art is more real looking. But who am I to say what art is? For art is everything.
There appears to be a general move in art in the direction of abstraction. The idea is of catching the essence of the thing depicted. One place to look for this tendency is in architecture, where...