Тема: The 20th century art

It is a moot point as to whether the most extraordinary innovation of 20th - century art was Cubism or Pop Art .

Japanese art , valued not only for its simplicity but also for its colorful exuberance, has considerably influenced 19th- century Western painting and 20th - century Western architecture.

Put together throughout two centuries and a half, the Hermitage collections of works of art (over 3,000,000 items) present the development of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th century .

- Do you like American art ? - Yes, I do. - How did it develop in the 20th century ?

20th century often defined the styles and qualities that the rest of the world emulated. At the end of the 20th century , American art was considered equal in quality and vitality to art produced in the rest of the world.

The largest collection of Russian art is the Tretyakov Art Gallery in Moscow. It is a real treasury of canvases by prominent Russian painters. It contains price-less collections of icons, 17— 20th centuries paintings and sculptures and contemporary...

A self-professed ``primitive'', he ignored the wealth of art in the Louvre, preferring to collect the African masks that became so important to early 20th - century art .