Modern Art Oil Paintings Collection

Fauvists like Henri Matisse used arbitrary yet vibrant colors in their compositions, while Cubist painters like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque emphasized form over content, creating the illusion of space with flat, abstract planes.

Surrealist painters similarly pulled away from the outside world by focusing on the subconscious and dream-like scenes, albeit with realistic precision.

Abstract compositions, including Wassily Kandinsky's colorful scenes and Piet Mondrian's, grids, were also popular, as they did not refer to any existing objects in real life.

Abstract expressionists are often associated with the end of modernism and, according to Clement Greenberg's theory of modernism, achieved the purest form of modern painting. Their splatters did not create a recognizable subject but instead embodied all the unique qualities of painting (pigment on a flat support).

Artists like Jackson Pollock also embodied the modern practice of bridging low and high forms of culture; he is known for mixing objects like sand, broken glass, and nails onto the surfaces of his drip paintings.

Other movements associated with modern painting include Futurism, Expressionism, Orphism, Suprematism, and Precisionism.

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