Modernism
1890–1945 · Event
A sweeping break with inherited forms across the arts — abstraction in painting, functional architecture, free verse, atonal music and the stream-of-consciousness novel — driven by industrial cities, new science and the shock of world war.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
Around 1890
- Boxer Rebellion (1899)
- Dreyfus Affair (1894)
- Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa (1884)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881)
- Pablo Picasso (1881)
- Reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1888)