At the beginning of the 20th century, a series of art reform movements appeared in Europe and America, especially during the period from 1907 to the two world wars. As a result, the communication art of human beings since the classical civilization has undergone a comprehensive, revolutionary and thorough change in thinking mode, expression form, creative means and expression medium, which has completely changed the content and form of visual art. We usually refer to this huge wave of movement as "modern art". The influence of this movement wave is extremely far-reaching. It not only changed the content of art, such as its purpose, values, objects of art service and ideological content, but also completely changed the expression form of art. There were several great artistic revolutions in the 20th century, among which the modernism movement from the beginning of the century to around the Second World War was one, which had a far-reaching influence and formed all the contents and forms that we now call "classical modernism". The other is the Far East of contemporary art, the "Pop" movement from19th century. The result of this movement is chaos. It is not clear what the result of this movement has brought to human civilization. However, we can clearly say that one of the results of the contemporary art movement is that there is no result. This wave is definitely the result of the development of individualism, which is completely different from the modern art movement before the war. Therefore, the post-war wave of contemporary art in the Far East has caused confusion in artistic criticism, with no standards at all, or the diversification of critical standards, the absolute individualization of artistic creation, and the pan-politicization of ideas; The complete separation of art itself from society; Art has gradually become difficult to collect or even appreciate, thus losing the supporting foundation of artistic activities. The time when modern art appeared, in the Far East, is controversial. Some people think it started with the Renaissance, while others think it started with French Impressionism. However, if we look at its relationship with traditional art, we should say that this huge Far East began in Europe in the early 20th century. The core of modern art is the reform of previous artistic content, traditional artistic expression and traditional media. From the ideological point of view, the purpose of traditional art is religious and moral exegesis, a reproducible and decorative visual pleasure, and its expression is realistic. Since the Renaissance, artistic creation has increasingly emphasized the artist's own feelings, but the realistic techniques, the art under the control of social morality and ethics, and the art funded by power have remained basically unchanged. The Renaissance developed three new realistic reappearance technologies. Perspective, human anatomy and color are all absorbed for the same creative purpose. The French Academy of Fine Arts in France is the art center of Europe in 17 and 18 centuries. Art serves the country and the royal family and whitewashes peace to its peak. In this torrent, some artists want to express themselves, but they can only express themselves secretly under the cloak of these purposes. In the19th century, the object of art service was wealthy capitalists, and the art market was manipulated by galleries and art salons. Artists have greater choices in the vast market, so the exploration of new art has emerged. 1860 "impressionism" first improved the technique of theme, but also changed the old solid color system with the success of optical development and shook the traditional foundation of color. More importantly, they brought personal feelings into artistic creation, which stimulated the further development of art. At the end of 19, personal expression became more and more the connotation that artists wanted to convey. Van Gogh, Gauguin and Norwegian edvard munch all used paintings to express their psychological feelings and fears. There are also a number of symbolism factions in Europe, which symbolize a certain idea or personal psychology by returning to Kazakhstan; Other artists have developed a strong interest in primitive art, African art and cotton piece art, abandoning traditional artistic methods and trying new original expressions. For example, Fauvism in France at the end of 19 was the result of this attempt. At the beginning of the 20th century, the development of artistic individualism reached its climax, and the desire for individual expression was strong, resulting in 1904, the German expressionist "Bridge Society" in Dresden, 1907, the Cubist School in Paris, and19/0, another German expressionist school in Munich. In the new era, there are many new visual stimuli and spiritual factors, such as the influence of modern technology on lifestyle, the rapid development of industry, the expansion of cities, the complexity of urban life, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, the tension of class relations, the increasingly sharp class struggle, and the emergence of new political ideas-Marxism, anarchism, nationalism and militarism. These unprecedented ideological, ideological and material civilization factors. Since 1900, European art has basically developed along two different paths. One is to emphasize the artist's personal expression, the true portrayal of psychology and the expression of human potential consciousness. Influenced by Freud's experimental psychology, from expressionism to surrealism, until the abstract expressionism developed in the United States after the war basically belongs to this road. The development of this system against all the achievements of existing civilization, including language and writing, is the anti-aesthetic development of artistic nihilism and anarchism. However, its emphasis on human self-feeling and the reappearance of human imagination and feelings have made important contributions to the further development of modern art. On the other hand, we try to find a so-called "real" way to reproduce the new era in form. Dutch cubism, constructivism and de stijl, as well as the large color gamut art, reductionism and light effect art developed in the United States after the war, all belong to this development. There is a broad "grey zone" between these two ways of exploration, that is to say, some art movements contain two aspects, such as Dadaism. On the one hand, they express their disgust and resistance to 1 world war through anarchy, while in form, they explore the combination of contingency, spontaneity and randomness on the plane; Futurism, which developed in Italy, is trying to express the worship of industrialization, the admiration of mechanical aesthetics, and the nihilism denial of all traditional cultures in the past, while exploring how to express four-dimensional space and the beauty of machinery in form. These numerous artistic movements have had a considerable impact on the design of modern square meters, especially in form and style. Cubism, futurism, dadaism and surrealism have the greatest influence on illustration and layout. They either provide nutrition for modern graphic design in thought or provide reference for reform in form, which is very important for modern graphic design as a whole.

How can we call it modern art design?

Modern design and modernist design are usually called "functionalist design", also called "technical beauty" or "machine art". Modernist architecture refers to an architectural trend of thought that dominated the western architectural world in the mid-20th century. The representative of this kind of architecture advocates that architects should get rid of the shackles of traditional architectural forms and boldly create brand-new buildings that meet the conditions and requirements of industrialized society. Therefore, it has distinct rationalism and radicalism, and is also called modernist architecture.