The term Modernism applies in retrospect to the wide range of experimental and avant-garde in the arts. Modernism was a revolt against the traditional values of realism, so in sense, modernism in the art world is primarily based on imagination, and not on what the artist is actually seeing. Modernism gathered its movement from about the 1850s, which proposes new forms of art on the grounds that these are more appropriate to the present time. It is thus characterised by constant innovation, meaning the act or process of inventing or introducing something new. But modern art has often been driven too by various social and political agendas. Modernism was in general associated with ideal visions of human life and prefect states or places and a belief in progress. The terms modernism and modern art are generally used to describe the succession of art movements that critics and historians have identified since Realism, culminating in abstract art and its developments up to the 1960s. For insists the work of Jackson Pollock, were we see a canvas, attacked by paint from all corners, which in the process of making paintings in this way, he moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush. Reading:
