What does the Western modernist art trend refer to

Western modernist artistic thinking refers to the trend of thought of certain schools of modern art developed in Western countries from the beginning of the twentieth century, which distinguishes itself from the artistic thought of the past.

From the perspective of the development of Western art, the Western modernist trend began around the time of Impressionism. Precisely, the origin of the French post-impressionist painters Cézanne, Gauguin and Dutch painter Van Gogh. The First World War left an extremely painful trauma to European countries, and a group of young artists, out of strong dissatisfaction with the society, were disgusted with all the original human beings, so they wanted to negate everything and destroy everything. In art, they attempted to get rid of all the ancient traditional culture and art, denied all the traditional art modeling concepts and modeling laws, with grotesque and absurd images to express incomprehensible things. Therefore, they denied the objectivity of the real world and pursued the subjective feelings of the artists themselves. However, they did not focus on the exploration of pure forms, but regarded the language of painting as a means to rebel against the social reality and vent their dissatisfaction. Because this artistic trend is different from the past, it is called the Western modernist artistic trend.

In the Western modernist art trend, many modernist art schools emerged, including Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical Painting, Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstraction, etc., but the various schools of work have a **** the same characteristics, that is, the use of abstraction, hyperbole, distortion, and other techniques to express the main theme of the work, the form of art, the use of strong colors, free and rough lines, twisted and exaggerated shapes, to express the work of the artist, and to make the work of the artist. In artistic form, they use strong colors, wild lines, distorted and exaggerated forms to express their subjective feelings towards the objective world. From the point of view of the works, due to the abstract, exaggerated and deformed methods adopted by the modernist art school, there are quite a number of works with fuzzy images, even absurd and bizarre, unbelievable, which show the idealistic artistic interests and decadent ideas of some schools; however, more modernist artists embody their rebellious character, emphasize their own values, and express the subjective mind of the artists, and also create quite a number of artistic expression methods and new methods that are worth learning from. But more modernist artists reflected their rebellious character through their creations, emphasized their own values, and expressed their subjective hearts.