Modern Art, Abstract Art and Contemporary ArtIn 1936 the Museum of Modern Art presented an exhibition entitled Cubism and Abstract Art. In the preface to the catalogue, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. states that the exhibition is restricted to European examples of Cubism and abstraction, since a year previously the Whitney Museum had shown a large collection of abstract art in America. With the production of abstract painting and sculpture it seemed appropriate to review the movement in both a historical and contemporary sense. The modern art on this site covers a period of approximately thirty-seven years, from about the time of the famous Armory Show of 1913 to 1950. The origins of 20th century abstract art are in Europe, but certain Americans reacted almost immediately to the first stirrings of the movement; consequently the period covered here coincides fairly well with the history of abstract art abroad. "Painting is nothing but an image of incorporeal things, despite the fact that it exhibits bodies, for it represents only the arrangements, proportions, and forms of things, and is more intent on the idea of beauty than on any other." - Nicolas Poussin
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