4 Pieces of Modern Art and What They Mean
• Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night is a meaningful painting interpreted as his turbulent emotions in confinement or his awe of the universe. • Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory depicts melting clocks, symbolizing the passage of time and mortality. • Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase challenged preconceptions of art and paved the way for abstraction and non-traditional subject matter. • Pablo Picasso’s …