modernists
Early twentieth-century avant-garde
Modernists are adherents of modernism—movements in art, architecture, literature, and theology that broke with tradition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In the arts, modernists rejected conventional forms in favor of experimentation: The modernists revolutionized poetry.
In religion, modernists sought to reconcile faith with contemporary thought.
The term often contrasts with traditionalists or, later, postmodernists.
Influential modernist design school
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- FuturismArt glorifying technology and speed
- SurrealismArt movement exploring dreams
- DadaismAbsurdist artistic rebellion
Constructivism · Vorticism · Suprematism · Orphism · Fauvism · Abstract Expressionism · Bloomsbury Group · Harlem Renaissance
Distilling to essential qualities
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- stream-of-consciousnessNarrative of unfiltered thought
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
montage · free verse · atonality · nonrepresentational · minimalism · formalism · primitivism · subjectivity
Violent tearing apart
- noveltyQuality of being original
- progressMovement toward improvement
- anti-traditionOpposition to customs
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
individualism · rationalism · urbanism · industrialism · cosmopolitanism · rejection · reinvention · radicalism
Bauhaus
Influential modernist design school
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- FuturismArt glorifying technology and speed
- SurrealismArt movement exploring dreams
Dadaism · Constructivism · Vorticism · Suprematism · Orphism · Fauvism · Abstract Expressionism · Bloomsbury Group · Harlem Renaissance · Lost Generation
abstraction
Distilling to essential qualities
- experimentationSystematic testing of ideas
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- stream-of-consciousnessNarrative of unfiltered thought
collage · montage · free verse · atonality · nonrepresentational · minimalism · formalism · primitivism · subjectivity · ambiguity
rupture
Violent tearing apart
- noveltyQuality of being original
- progressMovement toward improvement
- anti-traditionOpposition to customs
secularism · individualism · rationalism · urbanism · industrialism · cosmopolitanism · rejection · reinvention · radicalism · avant-garde
Picasso
Spanish cubism co-founder
Eliot · Stravinsky · Kandinsky · Gropius · Hemingway · Braque · Duchamp · Schoenberg · Mondrian · Matisse
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- creativesartist, artists, painter, painters, illustrators
- historianshistorian, historians, chronicler, chroniclers, annalist
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- innovatorsinnovator, innovators, inventor, pioneers, pioneer
moderniststraditionalists
Upholders of established customs
classicists · conservatives · academicians · neoclassicists · realists
moderniststraditionalists
Upholders of established customs
conservatives · reactionaries · preservationists · antiquarians · old guard
modernistsfundamentalists
Rigid interpreters of doctrine
traditionalists · literalists · evangelicals · conservatives · dogmatists
- 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, modernistic, postmodernism, postmodernist