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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Bay Area Figurative Movement influencedBy Modernism
this entity surface form: European modernism
Dubliners literaryMovement Modernism
Finnegans Wake literaryMovement Modernism
this entity surface form: High modernism
Pomes Penyeach literaryMovement Modernism
Jules Pascin movement Modernism
Luigi Moretti movement Modernism
Christopher and His Kind literaryMovement Modernism
this entity surface form: modernism
Down There on a Visit literaryMovement Modernism
this entity surface form: Anglo-American modernism
Portuguese literature hasInfluenceFrom Modernism
this entity surface form: European modernism
Gabriela Mistral movement Modernism
this entity surface form: modernism
Picasso sculpture movement Modernism
Wifredo Lam movement Modernism
MiMo architecturalMovement Modernism
Henry Moore sculpture "The Dallas Piece" movement Modernism
subject surface form: The Dallas Piece
Henri Ciriani movement Modernism
James family movement Modernism
subject surface form: Henry James
this entity surface form: modernism
Rufino Tamayo movement Modernism
The Tower literaryPeriod Modernism
Purgatory literaryMovement Modernism
this entity surface form: modernism
Richard Neutra movement Modernism
Richard Neutra influencedBy Modernism
this entity surface form: European Modernism
Jack Butler Yeats movement Modernism
Pierre Parat movement Modernism
dramatic section "Kabnis" literaryMovement Modernism
subject surface form: Kabnis
Lasipalatsi (renovation and extension projects context) architecturalStyle Modernism
subject surface form: Lasipalatsi
Vincent G. Kling movement Modernism
Charles de Noailles movement Modernism
Gio Ponti movement Modernism
Mendelsohn movement Modernism
subject surface form: Erich Mendelsohn
Balcomb Greene movement Modernism
Mrs. Dalloway literaryMovement Modernism
Tour Perret architecturalStyle Modernism
Three Guineas literaryMovement Modernism
this entity surface form: modernism
Vanessa Stephen movement Modernism