The history of modern painting is the history of mankind's further affirmation of spiritual reality with visual images. As a visual experience, as an integral part of human culture, painting is a figurative language of mankind. The history of modern painting is also the history of a process of development from the final establishment of painting to its fundamental disintegration. The book points out that disintegration is not degeneration, and that the demise of painting does not mean the death of art. As long as there are human beings, there will be artistic language.
The book provides a historical survey of modern painting schools and styles such as Neo-Impressionism, Late Impressionism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Abstraction, Dadaism, and Surrealism, and in particular analyses the interconnectedness of the ideas and concepts that gave rise to these schools and styles.
【Note: This is the same book as ‘A Brief History of Modern Western Painting’. For more details, please refer to: