Also during the period of time referred to as "modern art" each movement was seen corresponding to a somewhat grandiose rethinking of all that came before it,
concerning the visual arts.
Generally there was a commonality of visual style linking the works and artists included in an art movement.
Verbal expression and explanation of movements has come from the artists themselves,
sometimes in the form of an art manifesto,[6][7]
and sometimes from art critics and others who may explain their understanding of the meaning of the new art then being produced.