Modernism


 * MODERNISM **

Modernism is an artistic movement that emerged in the nineteenth century and embeds in the mid-twentieth century. This movement sought to create a new art, breaking with the dominant style of the time, responding to a need for change and innovation. In modernism technology and science are tools to create, improve and reshape the environment. Modernism conveys the idea of agility through curvy, nature inspired motifs.


 *  How did it start and how is it called in different countries? **

 Modernism is developed between the years 1880-1914. This school seeks to secede from the bourgeoisie and its materialism, through a fine art. The first manifestation of Modernism can be seen in furniture and everyday objects. Get a strong ornamental component. It draws on the delicate flowers and animals in a process that almost came to abstraction. The aim was to disrupt, deny, or go beyond simple realism in literature and art, and rejecting or dramatically altering tonality in music. Scholars say that Modernism is young, new, blooming... That is why it has received different names: Art Nouveau (French for 'new art'), Liberty Style (from the department store in London, Liberty & Co.), Jugendstil ( German for 'youth style').