Responding to Modernism

A modernist would define art using word like: "new" "innovative" "bold" "revolutionary". The modernist artist is always reinventing itself, desperately trying to be the one to change the accepted view on what art is; constantly in search of new definitions, new directions, and new ideas. The modernist seems to be in search of greatness, to be forever remembered in art history as the one who was the first to do (blank). The goal of the modernist is to provoke an aesthetic experience from the audience, but to do so by strict originality rather than imitation or collage (a means a postmodernist most likely explore).