What Makes Modern?

At our May meeting, we held a discussion on what makes quilts "feel modern, centering around the following characteristics:

• wide use of “negative space”
  
• minimalism
  
• asymmetry
  
• different scale
  
• “Made to be used”
  
• improvisation
  
• “cropping”
  
• “modern traditionalism”
  
• absence of borders
  
• use of modern colors/fabrics
  
• “alternate [or alternative2] gridwork” or “breaking the grid”
  
• Pieced backings
  
• mixed textiles
  
• use of gray

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