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Modern Art paintings include an extensive range of styles unique to the individual subgenres within modern art. Though other mediums are present, such as sculpture, the paintings most clearly distinguish the different varieties. Monet, Picasso and Van Gogh were all painters who used different techniques and methods, distinguishing the different subgenres.

Van Gogh’s modern art paintings feature vivid colors and vibrant swirling brush strokes that express his feelings and state of mind. Though Van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist painter, he did share many of the common features of Impressionist painters, such as Monet. Post-Impressionism was both an addition to and rejection of its forerunner in that the artists continued to use vibrant colors, thick applications of paint, distinctive brushstrokes and real-life subject matter, but also discarded some of the more strict confines the former genre included.

The Modern Art paintings of Picasso can fall under several different subgenres within Modern Art, such as Abstract, but is most often associated with Cubism. One of the primary thoughts behind Cubism is the idea that the cube contained an ideological understanding of time, where in the direct center of a cube is an event in time. In most Western understandings, time is linear, where there is a past, a present event and a future, like a timeline. However, in Cubism, two sides of the cube are an event's past and future; two more sides are one specific person's past and future as it relates to that event. The remaining sides connect all of these pasts and futures together, and these connections are what cubist painters desired to capture in their paintings. However, there the broader use of cubes within paintings broke realistic, detailed images into universal images and patterns.