• It is an over theorised term used to describe a very old fashioned art movement.
    I occured from around 1850 to 1950. Impressionism, cubism, fauvism, and realism are examples of modernism.
    Modernism was replaced by postmodernism - Which one can not even talk about in a dictionary.


    Modernism meaning & definition 1 of Modernism.


  • A state in which irony becomes [existentially] externalized; usually through the introduction of new technology which is a skeuomorph of prior technology e.g. factories replacing farms in the era of late [1880s] [industrialization].

    Modernism meaning & definition 2 of Modernism.


  • Modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique.

    Modernism meaning & definition 3 of Modernism.

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