modernists
modernists — 名詞
1. artists, writers, designers, or architects who wanted new forms and deliberately
現代派人士
主張現代主義的藝術家、作家等人
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.
在一九二八年的展覽上，現代派人士畫的是煙霧、鋼鐵和擁擠的街道。
the modernists + plural verb
Many modernists in Paris wanted clean rooms, flat roofs, and simple chairs.
許多在巴黎的現代派人士喜歡乾淨的房間、平屋頂和簡單的椅子。
modernists in + place
Roya interviewed modernists who preferred bare walls to heavy curtains.
Roya 採訪了幾位現代派人士；他們偏好光禿的牆面，不喜歡厚重的窗簾。
By 1915, the modernists were writing short poems about trains and factories.
到了一九一五年，這些現代派人士已經在寫關於火車和工廠的短詩。
Christopher defended the modernists after critics mocked their broken shapes.
評論家嘲笑那些破碎的形狀後，Christopher 仍為現代派人士辯護。
- 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.