The Classics of Modernism FEATURING WORKS BY PICASSO, TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, CALDER AND MORE

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, World War I, the rapid growth of cities and urbanization, and the development of modern industrial societies lead to far-reaching transformations in Western thought and culture. Artists began breaking with long-held traditions, making new, self-conscious and self-referential works that rejected the ideology of realism in favor of more conceptual, ironic, or formal concerns. Modernism created the foundation for contemporary art today; collect some its pioneering figures, here on Artspace.