Modernism, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and even the sciences, were becoming ill-fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world. Generally, modernism can be explained as the transition and opportunity to break from traditional forms and beliefs. In the 20th century, modernism played a big role in art, specifically in Europe.  Women artists in Europe influenced the techniques and development of modernism and movements of dada, Abstraction, surrealism, and German expressionism. 

Women always had a hard time showing their role to the world and actually what their capable of doing. In the 20th century women gained the right to vote and that gave them a huge push into society, and from that freedom, it gave them a good opportunity to show to everyone around them that they can be an artist and prove everyone who doubted them. 

Sonia  Delaunay described her textiles as mere “exercises in color” that informed her true passion, painting. But her work in fashion and the applied arts, via her Maison Delaunay design atelier, may well be her broader legacy. That means that al her work was on fabric and cloth with all kind of colors that were put any where she wanted them and she would make design with them all over her personal stuff. Sonia Grew into her painting and she opened her own boutique and that was with the help of her husband Robert Delaunay who was also a painter. Her whole life she focused on the circles that had so fascinated her, hybrid symbols of electric light cum wheel cum human head, an all-in-one beacon. 

Lee Krasner was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century due to her abstract, gestural, and expressive works. She worked in painting, collage painting, charcoal drawing, and occasionally mosaics. She would often cut apart her own drawings and paintings to create her collage paintings. She is one of the few female artists to have had a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art. In early life time it became too difficult for Krasner to support herself as a waitress due to the Great Depression. In order to provide for herself, she joined the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in 1935. Her job was to enlarge other artists' designs for large-scaled public murals. Since murals were created to be easily understood and appreciated by the general public, the abstract art Krasner produced was undesirable for murals. Her changeable nature is reflected throughout her work, which has led critics and scholars to have very different conclusions about her and her work. Throughout her career, she refused to adopt a singular, recognizable style and instead embraced change through varying the mood, subject matter, texture, materials, and compositions of her work often. 

Alma Thomas was an African-American Expressionist painter and art educator. She lived and worked primarily in Washington, D.C. and the Washington Post described her as a force in the Washington Color School. The Wall Street Journal, describes her as a previously "underappreciated artist" who is more recently recognized for her "exuberant" works, noteworthy for their pattern, rhythm and color. Thomas entered Howard University in 1921 as a home economics  student, only to switch to fine art after studying under art department. She earned her BS in Fine Arts in 1924 from Howard, becoming the first graduate from the university fine art program. That year Thomas began teaching at Shaw Junior High School, where she taught until her retirement in 1960. 

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits. Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as "La Casa Azul.” Her work has also been described as surrealist. Frida rejected the "surrealist" label imposed by Breton, as she argued that her work reflected more of her reality than her dreams. Frida was in and out of hospitals she had a lot of miscarriages and she got into big accident which put her in bed the rest of her life. And that image shows when she was in bed how she felt getting fed everyday without being able to move and she drew that by having a mirror on top of  her bed reflecting herself. 

And finally, there is Hannah Hoch was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage.   Photomontage, or, fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media. Hoch’s work existed to dismantle the fable and dichotomy that existed in the concept of the “New Woman’' an energetic, professional and androgynous woman, who is ready to take their place as man's equal. Her interest in the topic was how the dichotomy was structured, as well as who structures social roles.