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How Modernism Has Changed Our Lives

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This is a discussion about how modernism has changed our everyday life. Modernism has brought many changes in culture, architecture and art. The greatest artists of modern artwork is important to where we are now. Modernism is a period when a human realises that he has a power to create, develop, and transform his environment on the basis of scientific knowledge, technology, and experimentation. At one time, nobody could imagine that the industrial and mechanised age was going to be permanent and would be so important in the 21th century. I believe that Modernism was the most dominant ideology of 20th century and it continues to influence cultures around the world. Modernism includes many cultural and artistic movements rooted in the changes of Western society during the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The biggest change that came from Modernism was, that it started rejecting moral and religious principles, and historical styles and ornamentation. It is no longer just rich images, it is true art behind the image that is considered very important. For architecture and design, it has become very important to make spaces more light and open. I believe it was no longer just about beauty, it was about making every single item have a purpose and function for a human being. I think it's safe to say that modernism architecture reveals, rather than conceals the inner structure of the building. By looking at what came before modernism, I see a big difference, because modern art, design and architecture moves towards abstraction based on line, colour, shape, spaces, and textures. In the 20th century the world was changing so quickly, there was so many scientific discoveries. Technological innovations were taking place every second, so culture had to re-define itself constantly in order to keep pace with modernity. Artists of the 20th century were questioning academic art for its lack of freedom and so many isms such as fauvi

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