modernists
modernists — noun
1. artists, writers, designers, or architects who wanted new forms and deliberately
artists, writers, designers, or architects who wanted new forms and deliberately moved away from older styles.
At the 1928 show, the modernists painted smoke, steel, and crowded streets.
the modernists + plural verb
Many modernists in Paris wanted clean rooms, flat roofs, and simple chairs.
modernists in + place
Roya interviewed modernists who preferred bare walls to heavy curtains.
By 1915, the modernists were writing short poems about trains and factories.
Christopher defended the modernists after critics mocked their broken shapes.
- avant-garde artists
stresses being ahead of current taste, not membership in one historical movement
- experimental artists
focuses on trying new forms; less tied to the modernist period
- innovators
much broader and can apply outside the arts
- traditionalists
prefer older forms, rules, and established styles
- conservatives
broader label for people who resist change in taste or ideas
文法句型
the modernists + plural verb
modernists in + field/place
among the modernists
用法筆記
Usually refers to people connected with art, design, literature, or architecture rather than to modern people in general. Distinguish it from 'modernism', which names the movement or style itself.