What was art like in the 20th century?
What was art like in the 20th century? Twentieth-century artand what it became as modern artbegan with modernism in the late nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brcke ("The Bridge") in Germany. Why did art change in the 20th century? The economic and social changes of the early 20th century greatly influenced the North American and European worldview which, in turn, shaped the development of new styles of art. Artists began to question and experiment with themes of reality, perspective, space...