In a broad sense, the term Modernism covers both a range of cultural trends and a set of related cultural movements that resulted in rapid shifts in Western society in the end of 19 th century. In 20 th century, Modernism was encouraged by technological advancement, and was characterized by new approaches and ideas. This tendency is often contrasted to realistic tendencies and their conservative values. The problem of defining of the term Modernism created much difficulty for artists, philosophers and writers of the 20 th century. Modernism is, indeed, a constantly shifting category. Therefore, writers, critics, and philosophers tried to group the main features of this artistic movement and contributed much to the development of modernistic era. A great number of writers made their attempts at defining modernism on the basis of one or more chief characteristics. Richard Sheppard can be considered one of the most prominent writers who successfully managed to gather the main features of modernism into one definition. Hence, according to the writer modernism “included an “uncompromising intellectuality”, a preoccupation with nihilism, a “discontinuity”, an attraction to the Dionysiac, a “formalism”, an “attitude of detachment”, the use of myth “as an arbitrary means of ordering art”, and a “reflexivism”, an “antidemocratic” cast of mind….emphasis on subjectivity” (Sheppard 4). Further development of the term and modernist movement was encouraged by such activist as Stephen Kern whose original views on modernism as a new stage of cultural consciousness gave rise to modernist movement – futurism and vorticism – that strived to portray the time instability (Earle 128). The rise of self-selection of style was initiated by historian Ernst Gombrich who stated that the rise of modernism can be influenced by personal consciousness and new dimension of cultural awareness (Frascina and Charles 55). Modern art has been developed in other sub-categories and one of them is abstractionism. The rise of modernist movement began with the advent of outstanding artists like Paul Cezanne, Georges Seuret, Vincent van Gogh among others (Adams 5). Along with Cubist painters, such as Georges Braque, Andre Derain and Maurice de Vlamink, they came up with modern ideas in painting practices, producing their outstanding artworks in the beginning of 20th century. Due to the influence of modernism, painting transformed from animals and human images representation to revolt against traditional state of being. The first modern art was established within a 1860- 1870 period that was characterized by modern styles and ideological ideas as referred by the earliest modern art philosophers (Adams 6). Historically, modern art had characteristics that included color qualities and flatness. The techniques used in art were directed at presenting an unconventional vision of the world. Many modernists thought that the introduction of a new approach to art is possible only through rejecting firmly established traditions. This conception also relates to music, literature, photography, and cinematography. Modernist impact also touched upon the painting where the major approaches to rendering new ideas were those perf