Art Modernism Essay. A structured essay on how Modernist Painters looked at the world in a new way.

A working definition of Modernism was the rejection of Victorian ways. Victorian culture emphasized nationalism and cultural absolutism. Victorians placed humans over and outside of nature. They believed in a single way of looking at the world, and in absolute and clear-cut dichotomies between right and wrong, good and bad, and hero and villain. Further, they saw the world as being governed by God's will, and that each person and thing in this world had …showed first 75 words of 4977 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4977 total…Picasso 1881-1973: Genius of the Century (Basic Art) by Ingo F. Walther, Taschen America (Paperback - June 2000) ·<Tab/>"The A-Z of Art: The World's Greatest and Most Popular Artists and Their Works", by Nicola Hodge and Libby Anson ·<Tab/>Georges Braque (Modern Masters) -- by Karen Wilkin; ·<Tab/>Various internet resources for the images.