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‘Modern Sculpture

‘19th-century Beginnings

‘The origins of modern art are usually traced to the mid 19th-century [ce] rejection of the Academic tradition in subject matter and style by certain artists & critics. Painters of the Impressionist school that emerged in France in the late 1860s [ce] sought to free painting from the tyranny of the subject and to explore the intrinsic qualities of colour, brushwork & form. This expansive notion of visual rendering had a revolutionary effect on sculpture as well.

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*– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 27:107

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