id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1597 Modernism - Wikipedia .html text/html 19963 2147 61 In painting, during the 1920s and the 1930s and the Great Depression, modernism was defined by Surrealism, late Cubism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Dada, German Expressionism, and Modernist and masterful color painters like Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard as well as the abstractions of artists like Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky which characterized the European art scene. 1939[96] with regard to British and American literature, "When (if) Modernism petered out and postmodernism began has been contested almost as hotly as when the transition from Victorianism to Modernism occurred."[97] Clement Greenberg sees modernism ending in the 1930s, with the exception of the visual and performing arts,[23] but with regard to music, Paul Griffiths notes that, while Modernism "seemed to be a spent force" by the late 1920s, after World War II, "a new generation of composers—Boulez, Barraqué, Babbitt, Nono, Stockhausen, Xenakis" revived modernism".[98] In fact many literary modernists lived into the 1950s and 1960s, though generally they were no longer producing major works. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1597.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1597.txt