moderns
Those alive now
Moderns are people of the present or recent era, as distinguished from those of earlier times: the ancients versus the moderns.
The term often appears in discussions of art, literature, or thought where contemporary figures are contrasted with classical predecessors.
In art history, moderns typically refers to practitioners of modernism in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Of the present age
- present-dayOf this era
- twentieth century1901 through 2000
- twenty-first centuryYears 2001 through 2100
- currentDirected flow of charge
nowadays · today · recent · postwar · information age · digital age · machine age · atomic age
First to explore territory
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
- trailblazersThose who open territory
- revolutionariesThose seeking systemic overthrow
- avant-gardistsRadical artistic experimenters
progressives · reformers · futurists · experimentalists · nonconformists · freethinkers · iconoclasts · mavericks
Style prioritizing perception
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
- dadaismAbsurdist artistic movement
futurism · abstract art · Picasso · Stravinsky · Joyce · Woolf · Eliot · Kafka
Improve by correcting faults
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
suffrage · feminism · civil rights · social change · equality · inclusivity · pluralism · humanism
Aesthetic of reduction
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- streamlinedMade smooth and efficient
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
abstract · sleek · clean lines · brutalism · art deco · midcentury · industrialism · contemporary design
contemporary
Of the present age
- present-dayOf this era
- twentieth century1901 through 2000
- twenty-first centuryYears 2001 through 2100
current · nowadays · today · recent · postwar · information age · digital age · machine age · atomic age · jet age
pioneers
First to explore territory
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
- trailblazersThose who open territory
- revolutionariesThose seeking systemic overthrow
avant-gardists · progressives · reformers · futurists · experimentalists · nonconformists · freethinkers · iconoclasts · mavericks · radicals
impressionism
Style prioritizing perception
- cubismGeometric, fragmented visual style
- surrealismIrrational, dreamlike aesthetic
- expressionismDistorting reality for emotion
dadaism · futurism · abstract art · Picasso · Stravinsky · Joyce · Woolf · Eliot · Kafka · Beckett
reform
Improve by correcting faults
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- secularismSeparation of faith, state
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
emancipation · suffrage · feminism · civil rights · social change · equality · inclusivity · pluralism · humanism · rationalism
minimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- streamlinedMade smooth and efficient
geometric · abstract · sleek · clean lines · brutalism · art deco · midcentury · industrialism · contemporary design · form follows function
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modernsancients
People of antiquity
antiquarians · old-timers · primitives · forebears · ancestors
modernstraditionalists
Upholders of established customs
conservatives · classicists · purists · conventionalists · reactionaries
modernsclassicists
Scholars of antiquity
traditionalists · Victorians · neoclassicists · academicians · old masters
- modern slaveryCurrent forced labor exploitation
- modern artRecent creative expression
- modern theaterCurrent era's stage arts
- modernist artExperimental early-twentieth-century aesthetics
- modern art exhibitionsDisplays of recent artistic works
- modern warfarePresent-day armed conflict
modern, modernize, Modernism, ultramodern, modernist, modernity, modernism, modernization, modernise