modernist
Early twentieth-century avant-gardist
A modernist is someone who embraces modern ideas, methods, or styles, particularly in art, architecture, or literature.
The term usually refers to the early-to-mid twentieth-century movement that broke with traditional forms: Joyce and Woolf were literary modernists, a modernist building with clean lines and no ornamentation.
As an adjective, modernist describes work or thinking aligned with this sensibility.
Canine surname variant
- JoyceIrish personal name
- KafkaCzech-Jewish literary surname
- FaulknerAmerican modernist author
- stream of consciousnessNarrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
Eliot · Beckett · fragmentation · interior monologue · nonlinear narrative · imagism · free verse · unreliable narrator
Influential modernist design school
- brutalismHarsh, unsparing conduct
- International StyleFunctionalist architecture movement, 1920s
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
- open planUndivided interior layout
reinforced concrete · steel frame · flat roof · cantilever · curtain wall · Frank Lloyd Wright · Gropius · glass box
Innovative cultural pioneers
- experimentalTesting new methods
- pioneeringFirst to explore territory
- radicalRoot-indicating symbol
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
groundbreaking · visionary · unconventional · forward-thinking · trailblazing · provocative · iconoclastic · transgressive
Spanish cubism co-founder
- MatisseFrench fauvism founder
- KandinskyBauhaus painting instructor
- MondrianDutch abstract grid artist
- PollockSurname of drip painter
Rothko · O'Keeffe · Braque · Duchamp · cubism · abstract expressionism · surrealism · dadaism
Absence of key signature
- twelve-toneSerialism using all pitches
- serialismFixed-sequence composition technique
- SchoenbergAtonal method inventor
- DebussyFrench impressionist composer
Stravinsky · dissonance · polyrhythm · Copland · neoclassicism · orchestration
Improve by correcting faults
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
- egalitarianismPhilosophy of universal equality
liberalism · socialism · civil rights · labor movement · emancipation · universal suffrage · activism · social justice
Woolf
Canine surname variant
Eliot · Beckett · stream of consciousness · fragmentation · interior monologue · nonlinear narrative · imagism · free verse · unreliable narrator · epiphany
Bauhaus
Influential modernist design school
- brutalismHarsh, unsparing conduct
- International StyleFunctionalist architecture movement, 1920s
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
open plan · reinforced concrete · steel frame · flat roof · cantilever · curtain wall · Frank Lloyd Wright · Gropius · glass box · form follows function
avant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
- experimentalTesting new methods
- pioneeringFirst to explore territory
- radicalRoot-indicating symbol
revolutionary · groundbreaking · visionary · unconventional · forward-thinking · trailblazing · provocative · iconoclastic · transgressive · originality
Picasso
Spanish cubism co-founder
Pollock · Rothko · O'Keeffe · Braque · Duchamp · cubism · abstract expressionism · surrealism · dadaism · futurism
atonality
Absence of key signature
- twelve-toneSerialism using all pitches
- serialismFixed-sequence composition technique
- SchoenbergAtonal method inventor
Stravinsky · Debussy · dissonance · polyrhythm · Copland · neoclassicism · orchestration
reform
Improve by correcting faults
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
egalitarianism · liberalism · socialism · civil rights · labor movement · emancipation · universal suffrage · activism · social justice · anti-imperialism
- art stylesimpressionism, surrealism, cubism, realism, pop art
- decor stylescontemporary, traditional, rustic, bohemian, minimalist
- home stylescolonial, craftsman, ranch, Victorian, Tudor
- columnspillar, column, pillars, shaft, shafts
- design stylesart deco, Art Nouveau, art nouveau, Bauhaus, minimalism
- historianshistorian, historians, chronicler, chroniclers, annalist
modernisttraditionalist
Adherent to established customs
classicist · academic · neoclassicist · Victorian · romantic
modernisttraditionalist
Adherent to established customs
conservative · reactionary · fogy · fogey · diehard
modernistantiquarian
Scholar of old artifacts
old-timer · veteran · antediluvian · fossil · dodo
- 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
modernize, modernized, modernity, modernism, modernization, modernizing, modernizer, modernizes, modernists