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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Bauhaustreppe movement Modernism
Raymond Duchamp-Villon movement Modernism
New Bauhaus in Chicago movement Modernism
Breuer movement Modernism
subject surface form: Marcel Breuer
Wassily Chair style Modernism
Breuer House in Lincoln, Massachusetts associatedWithMovement Modernism
subject surface form: Breuer House (Lincoln, Massachusetts)
Alban Berg movement Modernism
Cesca Chair hasDesignStyle Modernism
Charles Demuth movement Modernism
Charles Demuth influencedBy Modernism
this entity surface form: European modernism
Alan Collins movement Modernism
Paul Valéry movement Modernism
Utrecht Chair hasStyle Modernism
Josef Hoffmann movement Modernism
Lübeck Mann family culturalInfluenceOn Modernism
this entity surface form: European modernism
Juan O’Gorman movement Modernism
Jacob Epstein sculpture St Michael and the Devil movement Modernism
subject surface form: St Michael and the Devil (sculpture)
Variant/Adobe series movement Modernism
László Weisz movement Modernism
Matisse cut-outs artMovement Modernism
The Sheaf movement Modernism
Tériade associatedWithMovement Modernism
Blue Nudes movement Modernism
La Gerbe movement Modernism
Oceania, the Sea movement Modernism
Herbert Beckhard movement Modernism
Eileen Gray movement Modernism
Emily Carr movement Modernism
Loïs Mailou Jones movement Modernism
Stanisław Wyspiański movement Modernism
Richard Foster movement Modernism
Helene Schjerfbeck movement Modernism
Constantin Brâncuși movement Modernism
Tamara de Lempicka movement Modernism
Olga Boznańska movement Modernism
Alexander Archipenko movement Modernism
Excavation influencedBy Modernism
this entity surface form: European modernism
Marianne Moore movement Modernism
Aino Aalto movement Modernism
Tender Buttons literaryMovement Modernism
The Farm movement Modernism
Divagations hasInfluenced Modernism
this entity surface form: literary modernism