Trace the development clues and the necessity from Classicism, Romanticism, Realism to Modernism

In the Western tradition, periods of Classicism share a reverence for the models of antiquity, but they may vary widely in their interpretation and application of those models, depending on the period and the genre (such as painting, architecture, literature, and music). In the visual arts, besides the general qualities associated with the aesthetic attitude of Classicism, classicizing artists tend to prefer somewhat more specific qualities; these include line over colour, straight lines over curves, frontality and closed compositions over diagonal compositions into deep space, and the general over the particular. Nevertheless, whenever artists have referred to antiquity, they have carried the problems and ideals of their own times with them, interpreting in different ways what antiquity had to offer. Classicism has historically been seen as one of any number of polar opposites. These polarities may designate aesthetic or critical oppositions (classic versus romantic, classic versus av...