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Modernist Painters

Painters of the many movements that broke decisively with representational, single-viewpoint painting from the early twentieth century onward, including Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, along with narrower movements and individually significant modern painters this group's children do not separately name. This group is split into child groups by named sub-movement, with a residual Other Modernist Painters child gathering modern painters whose work is clearly part of this broader twentieth century break from representational convention but does not fit one of the specifically named movements. It excludes the nineteenth century Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters whose own work directly preceded and fed into these movements, and excludes contemporary painters working today without a specific historical modernist movement affiliation, gathered under Contemporary Painters.

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20 1
Geographic Origin
France 1
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1. Wikipedia: Modernism
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  • Modernism, discipline-dating sentence
    Modernism was an early 20th-century movement
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    On the other hand, visual art critic Clement Greenberg called German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) "the first real modernist", although he also wrote, "What can be safely called modernism emerged in the middle of the last century-and rather locally, in France, with Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) in literature and Manet in painting, and perhaps with Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), too, in prose fiction.
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