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Modernism

Is both a philosophical and artistic movement that arose to the

surface along with cultural trends and changes and transformations
that took place in western society during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries .This term is usually used when we refer to what was written
at that time because what was written has special characteristics and
features which is completely different from what was before written.
Now what were the factors that shaped Modernism and made it what it
is? Among the factors that shaped it were the development of modern
industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities ,followed by the
reactions to the horrors of World War 1 which made people desperate
and hopeless and that was reflected in the literature and art
.Modernism, in general, reflects a departure from traditional forms of
art ,religion ,philosophy ,and social organization ,and daily life which
modernist artists felt had become expired in the new environments of
an emerging industrialized world. The modern poet Ezra pound's
famous phrase "make it New" was the touchstone of the movement's
approach towards what it saw as the absolute culture of the past . The
second important characteristic is that modernism also rejected
religious beliefs due to the fatal consequences of Darwinism.
 Modernism, in the fine arts, a break with the past and the
concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a
period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-
20th century, particularly in the years following World War I.