Catalan modernism (Modernisme català), is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan culture, one of the most predominant cultures within Spain. Nowadays is consider a movement based on the cultural reivindication of a catalan identity. Its main form of expression was in architecture, but many other arts were involved (painting, sculpture, etc.), and especially the design and the decorative arts (cabinetmaking, carpentry, forged iron, ceramic tiles, ceramics, glass-making, silver and goldsmith work, etc.), which were particularly important, especially in their role as support to architecture. Modernisme was also a literary movement (poetry, fiction, drama). Catalan Modernism was a political-cultural movement that longed for transforming Catalan society. The Modernists, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, struggled to achieve a modern and national culture. It was developed in Catalonia, and especially in Barcelona, over three decades, between…
