VOCAB Assignment: Hans Hofmann, The Gate, 1959-1960

modernism: Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes toWestern society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  The modernist movement, at the beginning of the 20th century, marked the first time that the term "avant-garde", with which the movement was labeled until the word "modernism" prevailed, was used for the arts (rather than in its original military and political context).  Surrealism gained fame among the public as being the most extreme form of modernism, or "the avant-garde of modernism"