The modernism art movement consists of cultural changes and trends that arose at a wide scale in western society in the late 19th and earth 20th centuries. The rapid growth of cities influenced the development of modernism. An important aspect of modernism is how it relate to tradition through adoption of techniques. Modernism refers to the broad movement in Western art, architecture and design which self-consciously rejected the past as a model for the art of the present, and placed an emphasis on formal qualities within artworks and processes and materials. Modernism proposes new forms of art on the grounds that these are more appropriate to the present time.
