Starting in the mid eighteenth century a historical art movement occurred due to impactful social and cultural changes , it's duration was roughly two hundred years. The french city, Paris probably became the most authoritative place in which artists of the 'avant garde' began to really explore modern art. This was mainly expressed through the titles, Cubism, Futurism and Expressionism. Futurism and Expressionism clearly show modernism, as they deal with whole new concepts and are extremely experimental when comparing modern and historical art. Cubism, however, still held onto the traditional traits of art, like portrait and still life paintings. Due to the 'technical innovation', Cubism was able to be considered along the lines of modernism, because it is able to keep up with, what sums up modernism, change.
It seems that art had to be capable of changing with the times, a lot of the art that was being portrayed as artist's work, was rarely seen. Modernism became an area where humanity and art worked together as a force detaching themselves from its traditionally historicist viewpoint and instead people looked to themselves by embracing significant technological and scientific ways of entering the modern world.
Harrison, C. and Wood, P. (ess) (1997)
'Art in Theory: 1900-1990', Oxford, Blackwell, pp 125-9
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