One Era, Many Rooms: Modernism's Odd Family Tree

Modernism turns out to be less a single style than a very big tent. The label covers Claude Monet's dissolving light, Pablo Picasso's fractured forms, and Salvador Dali's dream logic — three ways of seeing that share little beyond their timing. For anyone building out a modern-art wall, that range is the whole appeal: one movement, many different rooms to collect in.

With reporting from The Collector.