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Definition of modernist in English: modernistnoun ˈmɒd(ə)nɪstˈmɑdərnəst A believer in or supporter of modernism, especially in the arts. James Joyce and other 20th-century modernists Example sentencesExamples - But Romantics, and modernists after them, needed to believe that genius in its own time is always neglected, misunderstood, etc.
- In 1946 the modernists showed their work separately in the crypt of the Mariners' Chapel in St Ives and were consequently known as the Crypt Group.
- He studied for a time at the Art Students League, where he was introduced to the experiments of European modernists.
- To begin with, artists and critics, from academics to modernists, believed that American art lagged behind that of Europe.
- Yet after the war modernists and their allies seized on this symbol of the antiquity of Japanese culture as a touchstone for their own designs.
- That contrast, at least, is not a fault, but an achievement, as profound as any to be heard in later moderns and modernists.
- The modernists believed that New Zealand was ‘an empty land crying out for meaning’ and they set out to provide one.
- Comprehensive modernists both, they explored art forms from film to opera.
- But while all avant-gardists are modernists, not all modernists are avant-gardists.
- This work has proven useful to scholars in many fields - from Romanticists to modernists - and with quite varied interests.
- Ideologically orthodox Communists were extreme modernists who believed in a centrally planned, technological society.
- On this tasting, though, I feel that the modernists with their technology have gone a bit too far in their aim of pleasing the consumer.
- It is common knowledge that the Surrealists and many key European modernists came to New York to escape the war.
- One of the most famous modernists was Edouard Manet.
- Beck's art reflected the influence of classic modernists such as Kandinsky and Mondrian as well as the Abstract Expressionists.
- We resist getting typecast either as conservationists or modernists.
- His respect for European modernists is passionate and some times surprising.
- He studied authors from the past along with modernists like Joyce, Eliot, and Pound, remarking how increased literacy altered oral cultures like Homeric Greece.
- In contrast to modernists and traditionalists, some young designers take modernist principles as only a starting point for their ideas.
- This now sounds embarrassingly quaint, but many modernists have sought such authority from museums.
adjective ˈmɒd(ə)nɪstˈmɑdərnəst Of or associated with modernism, especially in the arts. his early work explored all manner of modernist styles Example sentencesExamples - It represents the architect's late style, which marks his break with prevailing modernist trends.
- This Southwestern look blends quite nicely with the casual, modernist style.
- Although the art deco and modernist movements are of great interest to him, he claims to have no major influence on his work.
- The ancient way of counting out lines thus provides a bass for these original, modernist inventions.
- He then rejiggered it to echo both the museum's eccentric modernist window and his childhood bedroom.
- The Second tries to find logic in sounds imagined in silence, and pre-empts modernist experimentalism.
- These oils on canvas rework that fulcrum of modernist painting, the grid.
- The image becomes abstract, but is evocative of specific styles of modernist painting.
- History's changing cultural place is also revealed by comparing the characteristic structure of Victorian and modernist novels.
- These artists advocated a move away from modernist styles to a more straightforward naturalism.
- These included many associated with the modernist avant-garde, who worked in a variety of media.
- At the same time, many of her pieces carry the hallmarks of high modernist abstraction.
- In a departure from their usual cool, modernist installations, this summer they are responding to a very different environment.
- Everything from sleek modernist furniture to Imperial Russian treasures will be on display.
- Rather, it is a refreshing example of contemporary modernist park design.
- In this way, the Academy's representation of modernist pieces was only part of the battle.
- The show evinced an artist who remained deeply in thrall to modernist principles.
- She also wrote two books on ceramics and was an authority on Art Deco and modernist ceramics.
- The paintings themselves depicted unpeopled rooms furnished in generic modernist decor.
- The result is an Afro-Brazilian subject overlaid with a European modernist style.
Synonyms novel, fresh, original, unhackneyed, imaginative, creative, experimental, new-fashioned, contemporary, up to date Definition of modernist in US English: modernistnounˈmɑdərnəstˈmädərnəst A believer in or supporter of modernism, especially in the arts. James Joyce and other 20th-century modernists Example sentencesExamples - In 1946 the modernists showed their work separately in the crypt of the Mariners' Chapel in St Ives and were consequently known as the Crypt Group.
- On this tasting, though, I feel that the modernists with their technology have gone a bit too far in their aim of pleasing the consumer.
- Ideologically orthodox Communists were extreme modernists who believed in a centrally planned, technological society.
- Comprehensive modernists both, they explored art forms from film to opera.
- That contrast, at least, is not a fault, but an achievement, as profound as any to be heard in later moderns and modernists.
- This work has proven useful to scholars in many fields - from Romanticists to modernists - and with quite varied interests.
- But Romantics, and modernists after them, needed to believe that genius in its own time is always neglected, misunderstood, etc.
- We resist getting typecast either as conservationists or modernists.
- To begin with, artists and critics, from academics to modernists, believed that American art lagged behind that of Europe.
- His respect for European modernists is passionate and some times surprising.
- He studied authors from the past along with modernists like Joyce, Eliot, and Pound, remarking how increased literacy altered oral cultures like Homeric Greece.
- The modernists believed that New Zealand was ‘an empty land crying out for meaning’ and they set out to provide one.
- It is common knowledge that the Surrealists and many key European modernists came to New York to escape the war.
- This now sounds embarrassingly quaint, but many modernists have sought such authority from museums.
- Beck's art reflected the influence of classic modernists such as Kandinsky and Mondrian as well as the Abstract Expressionists.
- One of the most famous modernists was Edouard Manet.
- But while all avant-gardists are modernists, not all modernists are avant-gardists.
- In contrast to modernists and traditionalists, some young designers take modernist principles as only a starting point for their ideas.
- Yet after the war modernists and their allies seized on this symbol of the antiquity of Japanese culture as a touchstone for their own designs.
- He studied for a time at the Art Students League, where he was introduced to the experiments of European modernists.
adjectiveˈmɑdərnəstˈmädərnəst Of or associated with modernism, especially in the arts. his early work explored all manner of modernist styles Example sentencesExamples - The ancient way of counting out lines thus provides a bass for these original, modernist inventions.
- The Second tries to find logic in sounds imagined in silence, and pre-empts modernist experimentalism.
- The show evinced an artist who remained deeply in thrall to modernist principles.
- These artists advocated a move away from modernist styles to a more straightforward naturalism.
- This Southwestern look blends quite nicely with the casual, modernist style.
- At the same time, many of her pieces carry the hallmarks of high modernist abstraction.
- Rather, it is a refreshing example of contemporary modernist park design.
- It represents the architect's late style, which marks his break with prevailing modernist trends.
- These oils on canvas rework that fulcrum of modernist painting, the grid.
- The paintings themselves depicted unpeopled rooms furnished in generic modernist decor.
- Everything from sleek modernist furniture to Imperial Russian treasures will be on display.
- The image becomes abstract, but is evocative of specific styles of modernist painting.
- He then rejiggered it to echo both the museum's eccentric modernist window and his childhood bedroom.
- She also wrote two books on ceramics and was an authority on Art Deco and modernist ceramics.
- History's changing cultural place is also revealed by comparing the characteristic structure of Victorian and modernist novels.
- In this way, the Academy's representation of modernist pieces was only part of the battle.
- In a departure from their usual cool, modernist installations, this summer they are responding to a very different environment.
- Although the art deco and modernist movements are of great interest to him, he claims to have no major influence on his work.
- The result is an Afro-Brazilian subject overlaid with a European modernist style.
- These included many associated with the modernist avant-garde, who worked in a variety of media.
Synonyms novel, fresh, original, unhackneyed, imaginative, creative, experimental, new-fashioned, contemporary, up to date |