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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Raoul Dufy movement Modernism
Versos libres literaryMovement Modernism
Black Widow movement Modernism
Ernő Goldfinger movement Modernism
Mário de Andrade movement Modernism
Anita Malfatti movement Modernism
Cícero Dias movement Modernism
José Pancetti movement Modernism
Di Cavalcanti (painter) movement Modernism
subject surface form: Di Cavalcanti
Di Cavalcanti (painter) influencedBy Modernism
subject surface form: Di Cavalcanti
this entity surface form: European modernism
Bruno Giorgi (sculptor) movement Modernism
subject surface form: Bruno Giorgi
Mário Cravo Júnior (sculptor) movement Modernism
subject surface form: Mário Cravo Júnior
Affonso Eduardo Reidy (architect) movement Modernism
subject surface form: Affonso Eduardo Reidy
Sérgio Bernardes (architect) movement Modernism
subject surface form: Sérgio Bernardes
Marcelo Roberto (architect) movement Modernism
subject surface form: Marcelo Roberto
Raymond Hood movement Modernism
Les Conquérants literaryMovement Modernism
this entity surface form: French modernism
Oswald de Andrade movement Modernism
Oswald de Andrade influencedBy Modernism
this entity surface form: European Modernism
Sérgio Bernardes movement Modernism
Beatriz Milhazes influencedBy Modernism
this entity surface form: European modernism
Jorge Machado Moreira (architect) movement Modernism
subject surface form: Jorge Machado Moreira
Dorothy Shakespear movement Modernism
James Laughlin movement Modernism
Koshino House influencedBy Modernism
Manuel Bandeira movement Modernism
Tarsila do Amaral movement Modernism
Djanira movement Modernism
Charles Gwathmey movement Modernism
Joseph Stella movement Modernism
Denys Lasdun movement Modernism
Cândido Portinari movement Modernism
Cândido Portinari influencedBy Modernism
this entity surface form: European modernism
Affonso Eduardo Reidy movement Modernism
Paulo Mendes da Rocha movement Modernism
Lytton movement Modernism
subject surface form: Lytton Strachey
this entity surface form: modernism
Hunger literaryMovement Modernism
Mysteries literaryMovement Modernism
Dreamers literaryMovement Modernism
this entity surface form: modernism
Edward Maufe movement Modernism
Victor Brecheret movement Modernism
derived from Companhia Pan-Americana (COPAN) architecturalStyle Modernism
subject surface form: Copan Building
Orphism partOf Modernism
this entity surface form: European modernism
The Agony of the Mind movement Modernism
Mexican muralism influencedBy Modernism
this entity surface form: European modernism
Cirque Calder movement Modernism
Wallace Stevens movement Modernism
Ernst May movement Modernism