This movement was known in Spanish as modernismo, but in other languages it received the name of art nouveau, modern style and Jugendstil, for example. On the other hand, in each country, modernism had its own characteristics.
In the field of religion, modernism was a theological movement of the late 19th century that attempted to reconcile Christian doctrine with the science and philosophy of the time. To do this, he dedicates himself to interpreting religious contents in a subjective and historical way, considering them as a human product within a historical context.
Modernism had its origin in 1880 in Latin America; It was the first movement within this art to acquire such force that it would infect many countries, including the main centers of literary creation in Europe, as well as Spain and France. The main reference of this movement was Rubén Darío, a poet born in Nicaragua.
The objective of this new styliteriterary was to get rid of the Spanish models and rely mainly on subversive current models such as French symbolism and Parnassianism. Some of the authors most followed by the modernists were Théophile Gautier, Paul Verlaine, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe.
Modernism in art was a current of artistic renewal that developed between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which coincided with the end of the century and the period known as the Belle Époque. His fundamental intention was to create a new art that declared its freedom and modernity in relation to the dominant molds in the artistic institution of the moment, especially historicism and eclecticism and realism and impressionism.
In literature it was a movement that developed mainly between 1890 and 1910, in Spanish America and Spain. As such, he proposed to renew poetry and prose in formal terms. It was characterized by the preciousness in the use of language, the search for formal perfection and the use of images of a plastic nature, with an emphasis on the senses and colors; For a cosmopolitan sensitivity and a taste for the exotic, mythology and eroticism. Topics covered could range from melancholy and boredom to life, vitality, and love.
And in the Christian religion it was called the religious movement of an intellectual nature that, at the end of the 19th century, proposed putting the doctrine of Jesus Christ in tune with the times in philosophical and scientific terms.
In this sense, he affirmed that the religious contents did not have to be read to the letter, but rather favored a subjective and sentimental interpretation of them, according to the story. Hence, it was a fundamentally renovating and reforming movement of the institution of the Church, and it was considered, at the time, as a heretical movement, trying to transform the sacred legacy of Jesus Christ.
