modernist

A modern.

One who admires or prefers that which is modern; especially, an advocate of modern learning, or of the study of modern languages, in preference to the ancient.

One who holds modern views; specifically, a Roman Catholic who holds the views (modernism) condemned by Pius X. in his encyclical issued in 1907.

One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.

An advocate of the teaching of modern subjects, as modern languages, in preference to the ancient classics.

Of, or relating to modernism.

A follower or proponent of modernism.

an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles