Piet Mondrian was born in the Netherlands, he also received his formal training there; he attended the Rijksadame van Beeldende in Amsterdam. Mondrian was born 24 years after Van Gogh, but the art was the same as it was since Van Gogh went away into the marshes to paint. Mondrian took …show more content…
I recall asking a collector to describe contemporary paintings exhibited in a local gallery. She said, "Oh, the art is contemporary and modern," combining two different art movements from two time periods. Her companion responded, "The art is avant-garde," using a 100-year-old art term.
Modern Art began in the mid-1870s in France and Western Europe with Impressionists Courbet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro and others; artists who painted in the outdoors, en plain air. With the motto, "art for art's sake," they used broad strokes of pure intense colors—intended to be blended by the eye—to capture the fleeting quality of light.
Contemporary Art, comprised of artworks made from the 1960's to the present, is generally more socially conscious and inclusive of several styles and media than that of Modern Art. It is experimental and includes hybrids of styles and influences from various periods of art history. And it incorporates conceptual and political messages, addressing feminism, multiculturalism, globalization, bioengineering and