Question

Which statement best assesses how art became more modernist following
World War I?
The hardships of World War I led many people to question tradition and express themselves in nontraditional ways.
To deal with what they witnessed in the war, writers romanticized war and their experiences.
The trauma of World War I led many people to seek comfort in tradition, so artists turned to classic styles.
To deal with the meaninglessness of the losses, artists drew subjects in a realistic manner.

Answer 1

The first statement.

World War I’s devastation prompted widespread disillusionment with old certainties, so many artists and writers broke with tradition and experimented with new, nontraditional forms (fragmentation, abstraction, stream-of-consciousness, etc.), hallmarks of modernism.