The art of the twentieth and twenty-first century is undoubtedly marked by numerous succession of artistic movements due to the many historical events worldwide, including the two wars, which take place in the twentieth century.

From Art Nouveau movement in France, in Italy they call Liberty, will be called Secession in Austria, one of the  main artists of this current will be Klimt,  you go to Fauvism, always in France, where the color is the protagonist, with artists such as Matisse, Braque, Marquet, Derain and Dufy, and then move through Cubism, was epitomized by Picasso. Through its fragmentation and reassembly of the reality on the canvas in a new order arrives to German Expressionism of Eduard Munch, and Austrian One of Egon Schiele, in which art is meant to show the inner world of feelings. Meanwhile in Italy Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carrà create the current of Metaphysical painting, whose purpose is to represent objects outside of the context in which they are normally.  Then Born in Switzerland the Dada movement and later the Surrealism one with the works of Magritte and Tanguy, creating a fusion between reality and dream. 

After the Second World War in the artists, as in the rest of the population, there is a desire to change, to express themselves differently, to question everything that is accepted by the masses, Thus were born various artistic trends such as the Informal Art, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, up to the present day.