Editing Modern art (section)

=== After World War II ===
It was only after [[World War II]], however, that the U.S. became the focal point of new artistic movements.{{sfn |Saunders |2013}} The 1950s and 1960s saw the emergence of [[Abstract Expressionism]], [[Color field painting]], [[Conceptual art]]ists of [[Art & Language]], [[Pop art]], [[Op art]], [[Hard-edge painting]], [[Minimal art]], [[Lyrical Abstraction]], [[Fluxus]], [[Happening]], [[video art]], [[Postminimalism]], [[Photorealism]] and various other movements. In the late 1960s and the 1970s, [[Land art]], [[performance art]], conceptual art, and other new art forms attracted the attention of curators and critics, at the expense of more traditional media.{{sfn |Mullins |2006 |p=14}} Larger [[installation art|installations]] and [[performance art|performances]] became widespread.

By the end of the 1970s, when cultural critics began speaking of "the end of painting" (the title of a provocative essay written in 1981 by [[Douglas Crimp]]), [[new media art]] had become a category in itself, with a growing number of artists experimenting with technological means such as [[video art]].{{sfn |Mullins |2006 |p=9}} Painting assumed renewed importance in the 1980s and 1990s, as evidenced by the rise of [[neo-expressionism]] and the revival of [[figurative art|figurative painting]].{{sfn |Mullins |2006 |pp=14–15}}

Towards the end of the 20th century, many artists and architects started questioning the idea of "the modern" and created typically [[Postmodern art|Postmodern works]].{{sfn |Jencks |1987 |p={{page needed|date=April 2021}}}}