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There is no precise definition of the term “Modern Art”: it remains an elastic term, which can accomodate a variety of meanings. This is not too surprising, since we are constantly moving forward in time, and what is considered “modern painting” or “modern sculpture” today, may not be seen as modern in fifty years time.

Even so, it is traditional to say that “Modern Art” means works produced during the approximate period 1870-1970. This “Modern era” followed a long period of domination by Renaissance-inspired academic art, promoted by the network of European Academies of Fine Art.

And is itself followed by “Contemporary Art” (1970 onwards), the more avant-garde of which is also called “Postmodern Art”. This chronology accords with the view of many art critics and institutions, but not all. Both the Tate Modern in London, and the Musee National d’Art Moderne at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, for instance, take 1900 as the starting point for “Modern Art”. Also, neither they, nor the Museum of Modern Art in New York, make any distinction between “modernist” and “postmodernist” works: instead, they see both as phases of “Modern Art”.