modernist
/ˈmɒd.ən.ɪst/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈmɑː.dɚ.nɪst/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈmä-dər-nist/ (ame, mw) · /ˈmɒdənɪst/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈmɑːdərnɪst/ (ame, ipa)
modernist — 形容詞
- modernistpositive
- more modernistcomparative
- most modernistsuperlative
1. describing a building, painting, book, or other work that follows the early 20th
現代主義的
屬於二十世紀初打破舊風格的藝術運動
describing a building, painting, book, or other work that follows the early 20th-century art and design movement which broke with older styles and looked for new forms — like flat roofs, plain walls, and stories told without a clear beginning, middle, and end.
The new library has a modernist look, with clean white walls and big square windows.
這座新圖書館有現代主義的外觀，牆面潔白乾淨，窗戶都是大方塊。
attributive: modernist + [noun] for buildings
Constanza wrote her thesis on the modernist poetry that came out of Paris in the 1920s.
Constanza 的論文寫的是一九二〇年代從巴黎冒出來的現代主義詩。
modernist + art-form noun (poetry, painting, novel)
Critics first laughed at Yan's modernist chairs, but the museum bought three of them last year.
Yan 設計的現代主義椅子一開始被人嘲笑，但去年博物館一口氣買了三張。
The house in the photo is a modernist design from 1928, with a flat roof and no decoration on the front.
照片裡的房子是一九二八年的現代主義設計，平屋頂，正面也沒有任何裝飾。
Adisa prefers a modernist approach to her novels and rarely writes a clear ending.
Adisa 寫小說喜歡用現代主義的手法，很少給故事一個明確的結尾。
- avant-garde
even more strongly suggests breaking with tradition; can apply to today's experimental work, while 'modernist' usually points to roughly 1900-1945
- contemporary
broader and neutral — means 'belonging to today' without the 1900-1945 art-movement link
- traditional
follows older styles instead of breaking with them
- classical
rooted in long-established forms and rules
用法筆記
Almost always attributive (before a noun: a modernist building, modernist art). Subject of the noun it modifies is typically a creative work or its maker (building, poem, painter, design).
常見錯誤
modernist — 名詞
1. a painter, writer, architect, or other artist whose work belongs to the early 20
現代主義者
屬於該藝術運動的畫家、作家或建築師
a painter, writer, architect, or other artist whose work belongs to the early 20th-century movement that turned away from older rules — for example by using broken time, plain shapes, or stories that jump between voices.
Iris taught her students that James Joyce was one of the great modernists of the early 20th century.
Iris 告訴學生，James Joyce 是二十世紀初最重要的現代主義者之一。
modernist as a count noun: one of the modernists / a modernist
Most modernists rejected the long, decorated buildings that their parents' generation loved.
多數現代主義者都拒絕父母那一代喜愛的那種冗長華麗的建築。
plural subject describing a whole group of artists
Defne is a modernist at heart and paints only in straight lines and three colors.
Defne 骨子裡就是個現代主義者，畫畫只用直線和三種顏色。
The exhibition brings together fifty modernists from across Europe and South America.
這場展覽匯集了來自歐洲和南美洲共五十位現代主義者的作品。
Eitan grew up reading the modernists and still keeps a worn copy of Woolf on his desk.
Eitan 從小讀現代主義者的作品，桌上現在還放著一本翻舊的 Woolf。
- avant-gardist
rare; stresses being ahead of one's time more than belonging to the specific 1900-1945 movement
- experimentalist
wider — any artist who tries new methods, not tied to the modernist period
- traditionalist
an artist who keeps to older, established styles
文法句型
a modernist + (in/of) + [art form]
用法筆記
Countable. Often used in the plural 'the modernists' to refer to the group of early 20th-century artists as a whole. Frequently followed by a field-narrowing phrase (a modernist in architecture, a modernist of the 1920s).