Rather than an artistic style, modernism was a rebellious state of mind that questioned all artistic, scientific, social, and moral conventions.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
Pablo Picasso
Modernists systematically and deliberately developed an art that testifies to all that is strange, unknown, and unlabeled in the self.
Modernists rejected technology and the rigidity of society and its institutions.
Modernists explored the uncivilized nature of man.
Modernists shifted away from nature and became closer to the city.
