MODERNISM

 MODERNISM Modernism is a movement of artistic renovation developed at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. According to the different countries where this movement developed it received diverse denominations, for example: “Art Nouveau” in Belgium and France, “Modern Style” in England, “ Sezession” in Austria, “Jugendstil” in Germany and the Nordics Countries, “Liberty  o Floreale” in Italy and “Modernismo” in Spain. Though there exists certain relation that makes them recognizable as part of the same movement in every country the development of it was expressed with distinctive characteristics.  There is not an exact date as the starting point of the modernism, some historian said that it started in 1872 but some other said that was in the middle of the century. Besides this, it is considered that the modernism had its major high point between 1892 and 1902. Modernism had the intention of created a new art, it tried to break out the dominant styles in the epoch, such as the historicism or the eclecticism. It was a matter of creates a new aesthetics in which the principal inspiration was the nature. The main characteristics of this movement were: - The contraposition of the classical elements. - The inspiration on the nature and the used of natural elements but whit the preference of vegetal and rounded forms. - The use of the curve and the asymmetry in the design and decoration of buildings. - There is not a strict real representation of elements. - The use of woman images - The use of sensuality - The use of exotic motives as inspiration.

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