Facts about Modernism in the Arts

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   Architecture was transformed by modernism through figures like Le Corbusier, who championed functionalism and rejected ornamental decoration as unnecessary.

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   In music, modernism produced atonality and serialism, with Arnold Schoenberg abandoning traditional tonal harmony in the early twentieth century.

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   Cubism, developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1907, became one of modernism's most influential visual movements by fragmenting objects into geometric forms.

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   The stream-of-consciousness narrative technique, central to literary modernism, was pioneered by writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

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   Modernism in the arts emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as artists rejected traditional forms in favor of experimentation and abstraction.

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