The incentive acts exhibition led to the improvement of infrastructure throughout the city, which made a huge leap in modernization and development. [24] Furthermore, the exhibition marked the testing of a new artistic style, the modernism, which until the beginning of century XX was what prevailed in the field of architecture and art in the city and became modernist Barcelona, the Gothic, defining the style of the city. [25] the statues made for the exhibition was the most important contribution to public art in the city's history and coincided with a generation of sculptors carving that caused one of the brightest moments of the Catalan art history.[26]