modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, performing arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement. Modernism centered around beliefs in a "growing alienation" from prevailing "morality, optimism, and convention" and a desire to change how "human beings in a society interact and live together".

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Modernism was an early 20th-century movement across literature, art, music, and other fields that broke from tradition by emphasizing experimentation and subjective experience instead of conventional forms. It arose from artists and thinkers who felt alienated from mainstream morality and optimism, and who wanted to fundamentally reshape how society and human relationships worked.

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Art movement.caption: Clockwise: 1. Pablo Picasso, (1907). This Proto-Cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting. 2. Constantin Brâncuși, Fish (1926), 3. Bauhaus building by Walter Gropius, (1925–1926) (Germany). The Bauhaus style and school were instrumental to modernist architecture. 4. Portrait of American dancers Martha Graham and Bertram Ross in Visionary Recital (1961); image by photographer Carl Van Vechten
Art movement.yearsactive: c.1860 to debated
Art movement.country: Worldwide
Art movement.commons: yes
Art movement.name: Modernism

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start time: 1900-00-00
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Overview and definition
Modernism, Romanticism, Philosophy and Symbol
Origins and early history
Romanticism and realism
The early 19th century
The late 19th century
Modernism emerges
1901 to 1930
Modernism continues: 1930–1945
Attacks on early modernism
After 1945
Theatre of the Absurd
Pollock and abstract influences
International figures from British art
After Abstract Expressionism
Pop art
Minimalism
Minimal music
Postminimalism
Collage, assemblage, installations
Neo-Dada
Performance and happenings
Intermedia and multimedia
Fluxus
Avant-garde popular music
Late period
Modern architecture
Modernism in Asia
Modernism in Africa
Relationship with postmodernism
Criticism of late modernity
See also
Footnotes
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

The modernist movement emerged during the late 19th century in response to significant changes in Western culture, including secularization and the growing influence of science. It is characterized by a self-conscious rejection of tradition and the search for newer means of cultural expression. Modernism was influenced by widespread technological innovation, industrialization, and urbanization, as well as the cultural and geopolitical shifts that occurred after World War I. Artistic movements and techniques associated with modernism include abstract art, literary stream-of-consciousness, cinematic montage, musical atonality and twelve-tonality, modern dance, modernist architecture, and urban planning.