As many here have noted, one of the defining features Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life shirt of modern art is a break from classical ideals. It’s a profound shifting of the function of art, and it coincides with some other ideas and trends that were floating around in the fin de siècle (the end of the 19th Century), notably Darwinism and Freudian psychology, though the cause-and-effect is tangled. Freud, in particular, may have been just as influenced by artistic and cultural trends as he was an influencer of them. Prior to that period, most arts was about transcending nature and portraying ideal forms, especially ideal human forms. This urge, which is ancient, was strengthened by Plato, who believed that all the objects we see are shadows of perfect forms
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