During roughly a two hundred year period starting in the mid eighteenth century one of the most important and influential art movements occured in response to ongoing greater cultural and social changes. Leading the way was the city of Paris where the artists of the avant garde began to draw on their own experiences of changing Europe and so composed the different facets of their reception to the modern which were marked through Cubism, Expressionism and Futurism.
Modernism marks the point where humanity began to detatch itself from its traditionally historicist viewpoint and instead people look to themselves by embracing significant technological and scientific advancements. By a strange inversion it appears that modern picture, rather than showing all that now makes the modern world, had internalised its modernity and so became a thing in itself.
Bibliography:
Harrison, C. and Wood, P. (ess) (1997)
'Art in Theory: 1900-1990', Oxford, Blackwell, pp 125-9.
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