A good example of what modernism is about was an artwork, Fountain, by Marcel Duchamp. A member of the American society of independent artists, Duchamp admitted Fountain, which was a urinal that had been fixed onto a painted background, into society?s exhibiti

on of independent artists. Duchamp signed the art with a false name, R. Mutt, and turned it into the exhibition, just to see what the other members of the society would say. As one would suspect, the society threw the piece out. Duchamp defended the piece by expressing his views on art. Ducamp stated that it didn?t matter what the art looked like. Instead, what was more important was why it was created in the first place (Stokstad 1022). As modernism took over the art world, so did this idea of artistic expression. Artists, such as Paul Cezanne, painted what they felt when they looked at an object, landscape, person, etc. as opposed to painting exactly what they saw. Inspiration for the created works of artists like Gustave Klimt and Odilon Redon were composed primarily from their mind. Vincent Van Gogh painted landscapes and people with much emotional expression. Edvard Munch painted the scream in 1893 (ruhrberg 149}. With its wavy lines and dreamlike appeal, it is clear that the artist is trying to convey an emotion or group of emotions with his art. In modern art, style medium and subject matter had no significance; what is important

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