Courbet and his followers rejected the standard academic themes and techniques, Manet shocked Paris, and Impressionists represented the world bathed in color and changing light. Paris saw the emergence of the Fauves, and of Picasso and Cubism. Kandinsky and others experimented with color abstraction. Le Corbusier and Wright applied the abstract principles to buildings. Works by Pollock, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and the sculptor Oldenburg are examined.
Art is now accessible to everyone to create and appreciate.
Host Michael Wood looks over the past and forward to implications for the future.