modernism

Burdened by unquenchable ambition, cocksure confidence and immeasurable talent, Whistler was in many ways an outlier of his age, with an inside track to 20th-century modernism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

“Tucked behind mature hedging on one of Malibu’s most desirable streets, this exquisite estate presents a striking blend of California modernism and rustic refinement,” the listing noted.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

Exhibition text here acknowledges the impact of Japanese colonialism on modern Korean painting, but the story stays with the artists, showing how they built internal support networks to define Korean modernism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Emerging in the late ’60s and hitting its stride by the ’80s, postmodernism is defined as a reaction against that less-is-more, strict-type of modernism that came from Europe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

Faced with the twin rebellions of dissonant modernism and the mass market, the classical tradition found an ace up its sleeve and played it with impeccable timing.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Anderson expresses a fan’s zeal and a collector’s greed for both canonical works and weird odds and ends, a love for old modernisms that is undogmatic and unsentimental.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021

Instead, they look to South America and Concrete art, with its cross-fertilization of imported European and indigenous modernisms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018

The view that there were many modernisms is now commonplace.

From Economist ● Oct. 26, 2017

There he produced a stream of paintings that synthesized Cubism and other European modernisms, mixed in non-Western motifs and mysterious symbols and culminated in his lusty, elegiac German Officer paintings.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014

"You know that my daughter is young and inexperienced—an impressionable child not sufficiently seasoned in wisdom to repudiate the gauzy lure of dangerous modernisms."

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr