Modernisn

I will give you an answer based on this article even though this article was basically written in Greek to me.... Ok it wasn't that bad, but I felt like I was reading the Old Testament.... I just kept zoning out (maybe in part to my ADD).... moving on...

Modernism is a continuation of the progress of art making (in this article specifically it focused on painting)..... Since the late 1800's/early 1900's... Artists took that next step, or went deeper into their craft, and began self-criticizing. Greenberg said Modernism includes "almost the whole of what is truly alive in our culture." And this is because artists began to push, and to reflect... and I think there were all these rules and conformities within painting and art, and they began to break them. And to really ask "Why?" "why are we limiting ourselves to this?" And so they started using huge globs of paint, and then started painting pictures that had to representation in them! and then started splattering the paint! and started gluing bus tickets on their canvas.. And then the art was no longer about realism, but about material, and experimentation, and about reacting to those questions.