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In the early twentieth century art was revolutionized and a new direction, one driven by 'self expression', was chosen. Art was now focused on the surroundings and different environments rather than the person or group of people featured in that environment, an approach that had never been seen or heard of before. Artists like Caillebotte and fellow French artists were leaders of this new style. As a result of this Paris remained pre-eminent in the movement, however other countries began to gradually embrace the new including Germany, Italy and Russia. Yet each country's interpretation remained strikingly different. This could possibly have been related to the three related moments in modernism. Modernization refers to machinery and technological advances, modernity is in reference to the individual experiences of the public during social change and lastly Modernism refers to the reflection of the new in its representation. With the influx of the modern, one half of society feared detachment from reality and artificial life replacing real life, whilst the other half where emphatic with exhilaration. Interestingly there was also a third point of view that relied more on understaning and knowledge of find the cause of modernization. In regards to the art world there where few artists who felt they needed to decode the modern world and change it in somehow. On the other side there were artists who wanted to sit back and where convinced art must transform itself. This difference in opinion remains prominent to this day especially in regards to the creation of ambitiuos art in the modern world.