modernist vs creative person

modernist and creative person both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
modernist	Yes	No	No	No
creative person	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, creative person is a hypernym of modernist; that is, creative person is a word with a broader meaning than modernist:

modernist: an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles
creative person: a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

Other hypernyms of modernist include artist.

modernist (noun)	creative person (noun)
an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles	a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination