I decided to wear this art-nuveau style printed top today at school, as I’m still working on the “The Nature Of Architecture” composition. A classmate actually told me that I fitted perfectly into the painting with the top, it was great that he noticed. I paired it with an animal printed I sewed myself a while ago, as I thought it would produce an interesting contrast. Also wore black, shiny tights and black boots. At school, Andrei – another classmate, borrowed me his new art book to take some snapshots of it. It’s about the most important work of the most important artists in history [it must be difficult to draw the line and choose between artists, no?]. What I was more interested in was the 19th and 20th century, as those are closer to my heart for some reason. Maybe it’s because in 5th grade, when I started taking painting lessons at Mr. Comisarschi, during each and every class, while we worked, he used to read to us about different painters and paintings. It was the abstract modern artist that stuck in my mind.

Click to see some of my favorite paintings ever, by reading the full post.

“Modernism describes a series of reforming cultural movements in art and architecture, music, literature and the applied arts which emerged in the three decades before 1914.

The term covers many political, cultural and artistic movements rooted in the changes in Western society at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. It is a trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve, and reshape their environment, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation. Modernism encouraged the re-examination of every aspect of existence, from commerce to philosophy, with the goal of finding that which was ‘holding back’ progress, and replacing it with new, progressive and therefore better, ways of reaching the same end. In essence, the modernist movement argued that the new realities of the industrial and mechanized age were permanent and imminent, and that people should adapt their world view to accept that the new equaled the good, the true and the beautiful.

Embracing change and the present, modernism encompasses the works of thinkers who rebelled against nineteenth century academic and historicist traditions, believing the “traditional” forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated; they directly confronted the new economic, social and political aspects of an emerging fully industrialized world. Some divide the 20th Century into movements designated Modernism and Postmodernism, whereas others see them as two aspects of the same movement.”

[credit wikipedia; read more on modernism here]