the philosophies and practices of modern art, most of which are anti-traditional and formally innovative The historical period of Modernism was from approximately 1900 to 1950
Theory and practice in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, which holds that each new generation must build on past styles in new ways or break with the past in order to make the next major historical contribution Characterised by idealism; seen as "high art," as differentiated from popular art In painting, most clearly seen in the work of the Post-Impressionists, beginning in 1885; in architecture, most evident in the work of Bauhaus and International Style architects, beginning about 1920
17th Century Rationalism culminating by the 1800's in a disbelief in the possibility of the supernatural Rejection of the Bible as divinely inerrant, and replacing Christianity with modern sciences and altruistic political schemes Essentially, man as his own savior ( SIMILAR: Naturalism, Scientism )
A style or movement that understands the manifestation of progress to be in science and its achievements; it rejects the past, holding the idea that to live by past ideas and values is to regress
Movement of the late 19th-20th centuries during which artists made a deliberate departure from the traditional art of the past Modernist artists were intersted in experimenting with new types of paints and media, in creating and expressing abstractions and fantasies, rather than representing something in the external world
was the major movement in art from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century Many art movements, from Impressionism to Minimalism, fall under the umbrella of this category Essentially modern art dealt with the "purity" of depiction The modern artist struggled further and deeper to find the purest and most complete form of self-expression The viewers interpretation or reaction was not considered part of the process of art making or as a significant part of the experience of art, as it will be in postmodernism
practices typical of contemporary life or thought genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
Implied by, and growing out of naturalism, this view of life denies the existence of value or meaning It projects relativism and nihilism
A term denoting those who sought to reconcile church dogma with the discoveries of science and critical analysis
Essentially, modernism is a belief system whereby truth is relative rather than absolute; where truth "evolves" over time and needs to be "best understood" relative to the current "modern age" in which one lives Simply put, "newer is better " This is a general term which can be understood under many other practical, more focused names, such as "moral relativism" or "situation ethics " A person who follows modernism beliefs is called a modernist Pope St Pius X aptly called Modernism the "synthesis of all heresies " See the definitive Church proclamation regarding Modernism in the Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (On the Doctrine of the Modernists), written by Pope St Pius X
the general trend in the methods, styles, and philosophy of artists involving a break with the traditions of the past and a serach for new modes of expression (See post-modern)
A broad trend in twentieth-century art and literature emphasizing aesthetic innovation and themes that comment upon contemporary life Modernist art flaunts difficult, often aggressive or disruptive, forms and styles; it frequently challenges traditional "realistic" art and criticizes mass popular entertainment Thematically, modernism displays a fascination with technology, city life, and problems of personal identity It embraces both political critique and spiritual exploration Expressionism, surrealism, and atonal music are some typical manifestations of modernism Modernism's impact has been felt in experimental cinema, art cinema, and some mainstream commercial filmmaking
A movement that began in the early twentieth century It was high profile in Europe, particularly Germany, France, Italy and Austria, but in England the Arts & Crafts movement led by William Morris was more prevalent Modernism does not take account of any historical precedents and values function over ornamentation Its characteristics are clutter free rooms with austere furniture in leather and tubular steel Its most famous names include Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer
Term used to embrace a diverse range of art movements and ideas that emerged during the first half of the 20th c and profoundly influenced the subsequent development of art, architecture and design Reacting particularly to the declining standards of craftsmanship in the late 19th c and to the decorative excesses of Art Nouveau, many practitioners and critics recognized the need for a new approach which would enable the production of well-made artifacts for mass consumption
Term referring to art, literature, and music of the late 19th and the 20th century; literary modernism focuses on breaking away from rules and conventions, searching for new perspectives and points of view, experimenting in form and style, the avant-garde; emphasis on art for its own sake; language and writing as an experience in themselves, without external referents; interest in subjectivity, the internal, psychic life of characters and the construction of reality from those inner perspectives; movements associated with modernism include Surrealism, Existentialism, Formalism, Symbolism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Impressionism, and others
Generally speaking, the various strategies and directions employed in 20th-century art--Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism etc --to explore the particular formal properties of any given medium
An imprecise term variously used Generally it describes a succession of avant-garde styles that dominated art and architecture in the twentieth century In architecture, what is usually called "iSalomnternational modernism" stressed rationality (functionality) and clarity of design Clean-lined, mostly cubic international style buildings avoid all reference to historical precedents
any of several styles of art, architecture, literature etc., that flourished in the 20th century
Modernism rejected the style of the past and proposed a floral style with its inspiration from nature Architecture, furniture, wallpaper and various other art objects had an elegance often decorated with plant motifs Others used strong geometric forms contrasting the industrial and natural world Out of modernism came Symbolism as a reaction against Realism and Impressionist
A retrospective general term applied to a wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in literature (and other arts) of the early 20th century including Symbolism, Futurism, Dada, Vorticism, Expressionism, Imagism, and Surrealism, together with the innovations of unaffiliated writers Chiefly, Modernist literature is characterised by a rejection of 19th century traditions, and of their consensus between reader and author: the convention of realism was abandoned by novelists as poets rejected traditional metres in favour of free verse Modernist writing is cosmopolitan and often expresses a sense of urban cultural dislocation, together with an awareness of new psychological and anthropological theories In English its major landmarks are James Joyce's Ulysses and T S Eliot's The Waste Land (both 1922) (For more on Modernism see the following web sites: Modernism Timeline; Modernism and the Novel) P
the optimistic view that human reason and science are sufficient to understand the world and solve its problems
An early twentieth-century trend in several art forms, emphasizing abstraction and opposed to the sentimentality of the romantic era In art, the leading modernists were Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky; in architecture, modernism was defined by the Bauhaus school, led by Walter Gropius; in dance, it was expressed through modern dance; and in music, through the atonal phase of classical music
the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"
Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical questions, apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the endeavor to reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church with the conclusions of modern science, replace the authority of the church by purely subjective criteria; so called officially by Pope Pius X
{i} quality of being contemporary in thought or way of life; movement in art and literature which seeks to break from past genres; theory of dogma that tries to reconcile the doctrines of the Catholic Church with the conclusions of modern science
Modernism was a movement in the arts in the first half of the twentieth century that rejected traditional values and techniques, and emphasized the importance of individual experience. see also post-modernism. a style of art, building etc that was popular especially from the 1940s to the 1960s, in which artists used simple shapes and modern artificial materials post-modernism. In the arts, a radical break with the past and concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I. In an era characterized by industrialization, rapid social change, advances in science and the social sciences (e.g., Darwinism, Freudian theory), Modernists felt a growing alienation incompatible with Victorian morality, optimism, and convention. The Modernist impulse is fueled in various literatures by industrialization and urbanization, by the search for an authentic response to a much-changed world. Among English-language writers, the best-known Modernists are T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf. Composers, including Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern, sought new solutions within new forms and used as-yet-untried approaches to tonality. In dance a rebellion against both balletic and interpretive traditions had its roots in the work of Émile Jaques-Delcroze, Rudolf Laban, and Loie Fuller. Each of them examined a specific aspect of dance such as the elements of the human form in motion or the impact of theatrical context and helped bring about the era of modern dance. In the visual arts the roots of Modernism are often traced back to painter Édouard Manet, who beginning in the 1860s broke away from inherited notions of perspective, modeling, and subject matter. The avant-garde movements that followed including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Constructivism, De Stijl, and Abstract Expressionism are generally defined as Modernist. Over the span of these movements, artists increasingly focused on the intrinsic qualities of their media e.g., line, form, and colour and moved away from inherited notions of art. By the beginning of the 20th century, architects also had increasingly abandoned past styles and conventions in favour of a form of architecture based on essential functional concerns. In the period after World War I these tendencies became codified as the International style, which utilized simple, geometric shapes and unadorned facades and which abandoned any use of historical reference; the buildings of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier embodied this style. After World War II the style manifested itself in clean-lined, unadorned glass skyscrapers and mass housing projects
late nineteenth century tendency in theology to accommodate traditional religious teaching to contemporary thought and especially to devalue traditional supernatural elements This worldview is based on the notion of universal human reason and experience and the human ability to discern objective right from wrong
Loosely, a term referring to experimental and avant- garde trends in literature and other arts in the early 20th century, which resulted from conscious rejections of traditional 19th century artistic conventions like realism and traditional verse forms Some of the experimental forms include symbolism, expressionism, and surrealism, and some narrative innovations include stream-of-consciousness and multiple points of view A problematic term, since we are always already in the modern moment See Post-Modernism
Modern literary practices Also, the principles of a literary school that lasted from roughly the beginning of the twentieth century until the end of World War II Modernism is defined by its rejection of the literary conventions of the nineteenth century and by its opposition to conventional morality, taste, traditions, and economic values Many writers are associated with the concepts of Modernism, including Albert Camus, Marcel Proust, D H Lawrence, W H Auden, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Mann, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, and James Joyce
Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way