Modernism

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Modernism is a broad 20th-century cultural and artistic movement characterized by a deliberate break with traditional forms and an embrace of innovation, abstraction, and new technologies in art, architecture, literature, and design.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural movement
art movement
cultural movement
design movement
literary movement
associatedWith Bauhaus movement
Cubism
Dada
Expressionism
Futurism
Imagism
Surrealism
Symbolism
surface form: Symbolism (literature)

Vorticism
abstraction
avant‑garde
collage techniques
free verse
functionalism in architecture
international style
montage in film
nonlinear narrative
stream of consciousness
coreConcept "make it new"
autonomy of art
form follows function
reduction to essentials
rejection of ornament
truth to materials
endTime mid 20th century
field architecture
design
film
literature
music
photography
theatre
visual arts
floruit early 20th century
followedBy postmodernism
geographicScope Asia
Europe
Latin America
North America
global
hasMainCharacteristic alienation as a theme
break with academic traditions
embrace of innovation
emphasis on originality
experimentation with form
focus on subjectivity
formal minimalism in some strands
fragmentation of narrative and form
interest in new technologies
interest in the unconscious
rejection of traditional forms
self‑reflexivity
urban themes
use of abstraction
hasPart avant‑garde movements
high modernism
late modernism
literary modernism
modernist architecture
modernist cinema
modernist design
modernist literature
modernist music
modernist painting
modernist photography
modernist sculpture
modernist theatre
hasTheme crisis of representation
dislocation and exile
inner consciousness
technology and modern life
time and memory
influenced contemporary architecture
contemporary art
contemporary literature
graphic design
industrial design
postmodernism
urban planning
influencedBy Freudian psychoanalysis
Industrial Revolution
Marxist theory
Nietzschean philosophy
World War I
World War II
advances in science and technology
Impressionism
surface form: impressionism

post‑impressionism
rapid urbanization
symbolism
notableFigure Arnold Schoenberg
Bertolt Brecht
Ezra Pound
Franz Kafka
Gertrude Stein
Igor Stravinsky
James Joyce
Le Corbusier
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Proust
Pablo Picasso
T. S. Eliot
Virginia Woolf
Walter Gropius
Wassily Kandinsky
opposedTo Victorian aesthetics
academic art
historicist styles
naturalism (as dominant norm)
realism (as dominant norm)
periodIn 20th century
startTime late 19th century

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Archibald MacLeish movement Modernism
Edward Larrabee Barnes movement Modernism
Regionalism opposedTo Modernism
subject surface form: Regionalism (art movement)
this entity surface form: European modernism
Fernand Léger movement Modernism
Paul Klee movement Modernism
Wassily Kandinsky movement Modernism
Aaron Copland movement Modernism
this entity surface form: American modernism
László Moholy-Nagy movement Modernism
Marcel Breuer movement Modernism
Oskar Schlemmer movement Modernism
Paul Rudolph movement Modernism
Gerrit Rietveld movement Modernism
Welton Becket movement Modernism
Doctor Faustus literaryMovement Modernism
this entity surface form: modernism
Josef Albers movement Modernism
The Snail movement Modernism
Jazz artMovement Modernism
subject surface form: Jazz (book)
Woman Reading movement Modernism
Woman Reading movement Modernism
subject surface form: Henri Matisse
Alvar Aalto movement Modernism
Lloyd Wright movement Modernism
W.B. Yeats movement Modernism
Cane literaryMovement Modernism
Gunnar Birkerts movement Modernism
Santiago literaryMovement Modernism
this entity surface form: modernism
Minoru Yamasaki movement Modernism
Vanessa Bell movement Modernism
Omega Workshops movement Modernism
Literature hasSubfield Modernism
this entity surface form: Modernist literature
Action painting influencedBy Modernism
this entity surface form: European modernism
Jay Gatsby literaryMovement Modernism
Yakov Rechter movement Modernism
Duncan Grant movement Modernism
New Formalism developedFrom Modernism
Open Hand Monument movement Modernism
Walker Evans movement Modernism
this entity surface form: American modernism
Ben Shahn movement Modernism
Gordon Bunshaft movement Modernism