Modern art is a period in the history of art that begins in the 1850s and ends in the mid-1950s. It precedes the period of contemporary art that begins after the war. It begins with the Impressionist movement and painters like Edgar Manet and ends with the emergence of Pop Art.
Modern art is made up of several artistic movements (cubism, futurism, surrealism, impressionism, expressionism, art brut etc.) but their common characteristic is that these movements are in rupture with the rules and the canons of the classic art notably concerning the figuration. Indeed, during this period, the painters, the sculptors or the draughtsmen do not try any more to represent the reality in a faithful way as it was the case in the preceding centuries but to show it in a different way or to free itself from any will of realism.
