The term "industrial revolution" was used to describe the period around 1830, but modern historians increasingly call this period the "first industrial revolution", characterized by developments in textiles, of iron and steam led by Britain, to differentiate it from a “second” revolution from 1850 onwards, characterized by steel, electricity and automobiles led by the United States and Germany. Modernism is a way of realizing that the inundating way of the arts since the beginning of the Renaissance had run its course. The sculptors made the stone as authentic as possible, the painters made the flattened surface of the work's plane as authentic as possible to the horizon, and the architects made facsimiles of the Greek temple and the Roman arch all the way up to the garden shed, at the time of illusion through the rise of materials was coming to an end and an incipient era of sincerity and benevolence towards materials was dawning. Modernism, therefore, is at the same time a replica of the industrial revolution. In the medium of painting, incipient processes provide an immensely colossal variety of paints prefabricated in resalable tubes, in architecture industrial technologies authorize construction on scales that had recently been unachievable, The great contradiction for architecture denotes that while architects used more incipient materials to great effect, the ingenious style of the appearance of buildings during the industrial revolution shifted marginally from the pre-industrial styles of the past. If nothing else, authentically, the Industrial Revolution had made their further entrenchment possible by bringing to life en masse the handmade details that had further defined pre-industrial styles. Baudelaire expressed himself verbally in h...... middle of paper ..... .t had a dual nature and his overall aesthetic is Gothic Renaissance, however there is a division in materials based on audience and purpose. In reality, even the train shed was built of iron and glass. To maintain the Gothic-Renaissance theme, the canopy's arches are pointed, rather than the more traditional classical round-arch style. . Industrial materials are used for machine functionality, traditional materials are used for human decoration. To conclude, the era of Modernism – the Industrial Revolution and the century that followed, does not seem “modern” when viewed through the lens of architecture. While taking up modern construction methods and, to varying degrees, materials, it would not be until the early 20th century and in buildings such as Behrens' turbine assembly hall for AEG, that the architecture would appear modern.