modernisms
New artistic styles
Modernisms are features characteristic of modern times, especially in art, literature, and thought.
The term often refers to stylistic innovations of the early twentieth century—stream of consciousness in fiction, abstraction in painting, atonality in music.
A modernism can also be a modern word or expression: The text was full of slang and other modernisms.
In religious contexts, modernism describes attempts to reinterpret traditional doctrines in light of contemporary thought.
Narrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- JoyceIrish personal name
- WoolfCanine surname variant
- free versePoetry without fixed structure
Eliot · imagism · nonlinear narrative · interior monologue · Kafka · Proust · experimentation · unreliable narrator
Geometric, fragmented visual style
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
- PicassoSpanish cubism co-founder
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
Kandinsky · Mondrian · Duchamp · avant-garde · Matisse · Dadaism · futurism · collage
Influential modernist design school
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
- minimalismAesthetic of reduction
- open planUndivided interior layout
- flat roofHorizontal building covering
cantilever · brutalism · International Style · concrete · steel frame · Frank Lloyd Wright · skyscraper · streamline
Newly created expression
- coinagesNewly created words
- slangInformal in-group vocabulary
- innovationCreating something original
- jargonSpecialized professional vocabulary
Improve by correcting faults
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- reinterpretationNew understanding of something
- Vatican IIMajor Catholic reform council
- demythologizationRemoving supernatural from narratives
ecumenism · secularization · heresy · heterodoxy · rationalism · anti-dogmatism
stream of consciousness
Narrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- JoyceIrish personal name
- WoolfCanine surname variant
Eliot · free verse · imagism · nonlinear narrative · interior monologue · Kafka · Proust · experimentation · unreliable narrator · alienation
cubism
Geometric, fragmented visual style
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
- PicassoSpanish cubism co-founder
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
surrealism · Kandinsky · Mondrian · Duchamp · avant-garde · Matisse · Dadaism · futurism · collage · primitivism
Bauhaus
Influential modernist design school
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
- minimalismAesthetic of reduction
- open planUndivided interior layout
flat roof · cantilever · brutalism · International Style · concrete · steel frame · Frank Lloyd Wright · skyscraper · streamline · geometric
neologism
Newly created expression
- coinagesNewly created words
- slangInformal in-group vocabulary
- innovationCreating something original
reform
Improve by correcting faults
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- reinterpretationNew understanding of something
- Vatican IIMajor Catholic reform council
demythologization · ecumenism · secularization · heresy · heterodoxy · rationalism · anti-dogmatism
modernismsclassicism
Adherence to ancient artistic principles
traditionalism · neoclassicism · academicism · historicism · Victorianism
modernismstraditionalisms
Attachment to inherited customs
orthodoxies · conservatisms · conformisms · ancestral traditions
modernismsarchaisms
Outdated words or phrases
antiquarianism · anachronisms · primitivisms · retrogression · atavism
- modernist artExperimental early-twentieth-century aesthetics
- modernist designStripped-down, geometric aesthetic movement
- modernist architectureSpare, functional building design
- modernist furnitureTwentieth-century design movement pieces
- modernist styleArt movement rejecting ornamentation
- modernist homesTwentieth-century design residences
modernist, modernism, modernists, modernistic, postmodernism, postmodernist, postmodernists