C2nounformalarts
US/ˈmɑː.dər.nɪ.zəm/
UK/ˈmɒd.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a movement in art, writing, music and building design, from about 1900 to 1950, that rejected old styles
In context
The exhibition traces the rise of modernism in Vietnamese painting.
Writers of modernism often played with time and point of view.
The building is a fine example of tropical modernism.
Words that go with modernism
adjective + noun
- literary modernismJoyce and Woolf are key figures in literary modernism.
- high modernismThe museum's glass walls are typical of high modernism.
- European modernismLocal artists borrowed ideas from European modernism.
noun + preposition
- modernism inShe is writing a book on modernism in Asian architecture.
- rise of modernismThe rise of modernism changed how cities looked.