Modernism- The Age of Analysis

Each movement was played out until the progression of another began. A constant quest for uniqueness and originality emerged and the world of Modernism took off. How would the world ever be able to move forward if there was such a strong connection to the past? The answer was, it couldn"tmt. No one really knew at the time where this was all leading to, but they were definitely willing to find out. Artists at this point were pushing previously set boundaries and experimenting with things were never even heard of.

Modernism had an effect in many aspects, especially in Architecture, Music, Art and Science.
Modernism came after Romaticism and it means to religion, less Christianity, more individualism against democracy.

Modernist architecture emphasizes function. It attempts to provide for specific needs rather than imitate nature. The roots of Modernism may be found in the work of Berthold Luberkin (1901-1990), a Russian architect who settled in London and founded a group called Tecton. The Tecton architects believed in applying scientific, analytical methods to design. Their stark buildings ran counter to expectations and often seemed to defy gravity.

Another very important person that brightened the age of Modernism was Maria Sklodowska Curie, who was a Polish physicist and chemist, one of the most ingenious scientists of the 20th Century, and indeed of all time. She worked in a partnership with her husband Pierre Curie, whom she met in Paris. She is generally known for her discovery of the radioactivity of polonium and radium in 1898. Her scientific achievements led her to receive many honours and medals, most notably the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903 and for chemistry eight years later. Curie became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first person to win two Nobel awards. She was also the first female to lecture at the Sorbonne University in Paris. After her death of leukemia caused by overexposure to radiation, her ashes were enshrined in the Pantheon, a monument to France's national heroes. No woman before her had received such an honour.