"Originality is about going back to the roots." Antonio Gaudi Casa Amatller y Casa Batlló Catalan Modernisme: An Expression of the Nation's Cultural Renaissance Origins of Modernisme: A New Art Movement The architectural style Modernisme, also known as Catalan modernism, was a cultural movement in Spain that arose at the end of the nineteenth century and lasted until the beginning of the twentieth, and was one of the most important architectural manifestations of the time. Ca