Terms:
Modern/ Modernity - Industrialisation, Urbanisation
Modern artists response to the city.
Psychology and subjective experience.
Modern art photography.
Defying modernist art.
John Rusking:
The use of colour was seen as modern when first created - Contemporary
Paris Exposition
Modern art - more progressive, improved.
Consumer culture lives on this - Paris - site of modernity.
Modernity - 1750 - 1960.
Trattoir Roullant:
Urbanisation - People moved to the city - More inter connected, New entertainment bringing people closer.
Technology changes relationships with workers / Family.
Great Exhibition:
The battle between London and Paris - Race for supremacy and Modernity 1851 (London) 1855 (Paris.)
The City:
Object of study for artists.
Eifle Tower - Modern Materials towers above all of the traditional old buildings progression of modernity.
Railway - Increase of population in the city.
Fashion:
Surrounded by a vast number of people must express yourself, your identity in the city.
Haussmanisation:
Paris 1850s - a new Paris
Old architecture nocked down.
Large boulevards replace old housing.
Police a form of social control.
Artist now start to use the city as a subject for life.
The introduction of Psychology makes the artists now think about their work.
depicting relevant images of Modernity.
Modernity changes - The difference between people in life Rich/Poor.
Scientific discoveries - This had an effect on art.
Light optics - influenced art.
Shift work - work time/ free time.
Modernism - In art Manifests.
Absinth Drink - This suggests that modern life is rubbish.
Photography then started to influence art e.g. cropping of paintings
Kaiserpanorama:
Where modernism takes over - People paid to look at landscapes through a machine
When they could see it in person, technology taking over.
Max Nordau: Regeneration 1892 (An anti Modernist)
Worries of the modern world.
Invention of film:
Radical new technology - scared the people.
Lumiere Brothers first films.
Modernism: The response of artists and designers to modernity.
Photography - makes painting become more obsolete.
New buildings and technology gave the photography and painting new view points.
Scientific discoveries again developing painting anatomy of the body how it moves.
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Modernism Design:
- Anti Historicism
- Truth to materials
- Form follows Function
- Technology
- Internationalism
Bauhaus:
Simplicity
- New teaching
- Natural Materials
Anti Historicism:
No need to look backward to older style.
"Ornament is crime" - Adolf Loos 1908
Truth to materials - simple geometric forms appropriate to materials being used.
Minimalism - Stripped down.
Internationalism:
A language of design that can be understood by anyone, (any country) this is achieved by stripping down to bare essentials.
Modernist Type:
Sans-serif type face
Hurbert Bayer
Argument to ditch uppercase
New architecture.
Stanley Morrison:
Times (Type)
Modernist typeface based on the old designs very nationalist but not progressively modern.
New Materials:
Concrete
New technology - street.
Conclusion
Modern - Is not a neutral term it suggests novelty and improvement.
Modernity (1750/1960) - Social and cultural experience.
Modernism - The range of ideas and styles that sprung from modernity.
Importance of modernism.
A vocab of styles.
Art and design education Idea/ Form follow Function.
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