american modernism is characterized by _____.
FROM MODERNISM TO POST-MODERNISM. POST-WAR ART IN AMERICA. After the Second World War, the art world was characterized by âtriumphalismâ in New York and a feeling of having won, not just a military war but also a cultural war. The French and their School of Paris had been routed. Also defeated was American Scene painting and its nativist illustrations of a naÃ¯ve nation.