Sentences with 'modernist'
Example sentences and phrases with the word modernist and other words derived from it.
• « Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), the greatest Cubist painter and sculptor, was one of the quintessential modernist painters in the sense that he portrayed objects, people, even the works of the past masters, but did so from several different perspectives at once. »
• « One of the most notable modernist composers was Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971). A Russian composer, Stravinsky was best known for the Rite of Spring. »
• « Especially during the modernist period, in the decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century, artists and writers had often staged their works in opposition to the culture and beliefs of their societies, but artists of the postmodern era could play with the mainstream without rejecting or breaking with it. »