Origins Of Modern Art:Ormiston NF MM Watch the prehistoric age leap

Watch the prehistoric age leap into life

Tony WheelerAbout Lonely Planet: Started in 1973

That mistake in college

Both enlightening and practical

Origins Of Modern Art:Ormiston NF MM Watch the prehistoric age leapThe tender roots of Modern Art can be seen in the wild sea paintings of Turner, as early as the mid 19th Century, but it took the Impressionists and the Pre Raphaelites to break the elite classical mode, until the final blows were dealt in the early 1900s by Kandinsky, Klee and Picasso. Modern Art was a reaction to the gathering pace of industrialisation of the late Victorian world, and the desire for art that looked forwards not behind to classical