Modern Paintings

Modernism is a period in history that implies a new standard of thinking and producing art, literature, and mainly philosophy. Every existing element of our present culture is a product of Modernism. This period began primarily because of a drastic change in philosophy. The art critic Clement Greenberg considers Immanuel Kant to be the first true modernist, for the philosopher was the first to show an intensification of self-criticism, by criticizing the form philosophers used to criticize. This is inherited from Enlightenment thoughts, but differs since phModernism’s self-criticism comes from the inside and not the other way around..