'A tipping point'?: Why this 1768 painting could be the real birth of modern art
- Posted on November 12, 2025
- By BBC News
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'A tipping point'?: Why this 1768 painting could be the real birth of modern art
While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before?
