Modern Art Favorites In a constant desire to

In a constant desire to challenge

began painting pictures with rapid

while a series of incisive and eye-opening essays by eminent scholars and contemporary artists touch on a broad range of topics

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Modern Art Favorites In a constant desire toEdited by Hans Werner Holzwarth Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the Salon by organizing their own independent exhibitions. After this first assault on the artistic