Modern art is a story of liberation – of colour from form, of form from convention, and of convention from the past. The Impressionists liberated painting from the studio and returned it to the light; the Expressionists liberated it from the external world and handed it over to the soul; the Cubists liberated it from a single perspective and handed it over to thought itself. The Surrealists opened painting up to the unconscious; the Abstract Expressionists allowed colour to become its own subject. Together, these five movements trace a century in which painting repeatedly reinvented what it means to see – and these AI interpretations carry this dialogue forward into a new century.