Think of what the terms modernism and modern art meant to you before starting this lesson.

Your answer will vary depending on what meanings you had attached to these terms and how they changed. You might, for example, have said that you assumed modern in both of these terms referred to your own time in the twenty-first century rather than to a movement that took shape in the early twentieth century. (This kind of confusion often arises when movements are labeled with time-sensitive words like new or modern.) You might then have noted that you now see that modernism is about art forms that emerged from radical shifts in ideas related the formation of the modern world and aesthetic rules.

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