The 1913 Armory Show, also known as the International Exhibition of Modern Art, was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors. It was the first large exhibition of modern art in America, as well as one of the many exhibitions that have been held in the vast spaces of U.S. National Guard armories.
Armory show button, 1913
Armory Show poster
A drawing by John French Sloan titled "A slight attack of third dimentia brought on by excessive study of the much-talked of cubist pictures in the International Exhibition at New York", April 1913
69th Regiment Armory in 2008
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Modern artists experimented with new ways of seeing and with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art. A tendency away from the narrative, which was characteristic of the traditional arts, toward abstraction is characteristic of much modern art. More recent artistic production is often called contemporary art or postmodern art.
Vincent van Gogh, Country Road in Provence by Night, 1889, May 1890, Kröller-Müller Museum
Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1898–1905
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge: Two Women Waltzing, 1892
Paul Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching 1892, Albright-Knox Art Gallery