While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before? What is "modern ...

In 1903, several years before his decisive involvement with Marinetti and Futurism, Umberto Boccioni made a painting called Roman Landscape that shows a cow grazing in a dense field of grass and ...

Cubism, impressionism, expressionism and... Is there anything else? Many artistic currents did not achieve such renown, but were undoubtedly central to the development of 20th-century avant-garde art.