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Birth of the Modern
Van Gogh, Munch, Klimt and Cézanne take the leap toward modern art.
🔍 How to spot it
Three giveaways that tell you what you're looking at — even for a painting
you've never seen. Each detail below is magnified from the work named beside it.
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Colour as emotion. A green face or a red sky because it feels right — accuracy is abandoned.
detail from The Scream — Edvard Munch
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The mark shows. Swirls, dots and slabs — you can read the artist's hand in every stroke.
detail from The Starry Night — Vincent van Gogh
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Flattened space. Depth collapses, outlines return, and the painted surface asserts itself as a surface.
detail from The Kiss — Gustav Klimt
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💡 Colour used for feeling, marks you can see, and space pressed flat.
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The works
7 paintings in this chapter.
