Modernism

1. What is modernism?  Modernism is the term that designates a stream of artistic renewal, an urban and bourgeois manifestation, where the Middle-class opens his mind and becomes cosmopolitan. Refers to the intention of creating a new art, holding a break with the dominant styles of that era.

2. What is it called in different countries?  //Art Nouveau// (in Belgium and France), //Modern Style// (in England), Sezassion (in Austria), //Jugendstil// (in Germany), //Liberty// (in USA), //Floreale// (in Italy), and //Modernismo// (in Spain).

3. When did it start and why?

It starts in the last decade of 19th century and the first one of 20th century and is initiated by the need to break with the industrialization and mechanization of life in that time, and the need to return to liberty of natural organic forms.

4. What are its main characteristics?  - Suggestion of agility with its curve lines and subjets inspired from Nature.

- Inspiration in delicate flowers and animals in a process that almost comes to abstraction.

- Decoration never was something added to objects, but a part of them intimately connected to its structure.

- Symmetric systems will be rejected, searching for ondulations called little whip line suggesting liveliness or strength rather than symmetry and regularity.