The main objective of Modern art was to set aside the traditions of the past and put more emphasis on experimentation with new perspective of seeing the world. People often get confused with the word ‘modern’, as a term to describe something new and fashionable, but rather it refers to the artworks produced during the 1890-1960 era.

1. Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth

2. Henri Matisse, The Piano Lesson

3. The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

4. The Red Studio by Henri Matisse

5. The Lovers by René Magritte

6. Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein,

7. The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau

8. Willem de Kooning, Woman I

  9. The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

10. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso

11.  Untitled by Lee Bontecou

12. Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair by Frida Kahlo,

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