Modernism
A movement which argues that art can only become better with time because of the emphasis placed on learning and practicing new skills. The subject matter of pictures was often detached from the movement's rhetoric, which resulted in formalism (also known as "art for the sake of art") being the predominant narrative of the movement. It is often believed that modernism died out with the rise of postmodernism, but modernism has subsequently made a comeback as an essential component of contemporary art and the pluralist ideals it upholds.
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