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modernism

A ninety-year span of cultural, political, and technological evolution gave birth to new artistic styles and theories. Born during the 1880s the modernist movement acted as a response to preceding artwork and a progressing society. Earlier works (pre-modernist) represented the literal, realistic aspects of life with interpretation interjected “from the sentiments the viewer hauls along to it” (Wolfe 5). The answer to realism then was “art produced for art’s sake” (Witcombe), the development of form and color of an image to en...

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