4. Modernism
& Modernity
Modernism
Deliberate departure
from tradition
Modernity To be in the present;
“a shopping mall would instil a
spirit of modernity
Social & Political re structuring –
resulting from a fully industrialised
environment (in the West)
WW1 & WW2
The Cold War
The Race for Global Supremacy
hastened all aspects of modernism
Camera, Motorised Vehicles, Factory
Production, Radio, Space Travel,
Concrete
The start of modernism began with
the enclosures act and the industrial
revolution
Art, Literature, Music,
Architecture, Fashion
Urban Planning,
Furniture
5. The outlook on the
world was changing,
from the view from a
carriage window, to a
city filled with smog.
The landscape was
shifting and changing
before the artists eyes
and of course they made
work in response which
was often shocking and
controversial
6. 1837 - Daguerre's first daguerreotype, the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under 30 minutes of light exposure.
1840 - First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
1841 - William Henry Talbot patents the Collotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies
Jockeys before the Race, 1878-79
7. Royalty – The Chruch – Wealthy Patrons
Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Mary Wordsworth, Lady Kent
Thomas Gainsborough
Mr &Mrs Andrews
Caravaggio
8. Middle Class?
money made from industry not inherited wealth
The Class System defined by the hat
Robert Polhill Bevan
A Sale At Tattersalls
1885
Leisure Time
Education
Aspirations
10. Francois-Joseph Heim (French Painter, 1787-1865)
Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon of 1824 at the Louvre 1827
Oil Paint Tubes invented 1841
Monet
church at vetheuil
11. Manet’s Olympia
1863
Claude Monet
Impression Sunrise 1872
Two paintings that changed the world
Auguste Renoir
Young Woman Bathing
Benjamin Williams Leader
Returning Home
Oil on canvas, 1897
Nostalgia.....another subject all together
Politically
Incorrect
I’m looking at YOU!
12. War
Henry TonksFrancis Bacon
Christopher Nevinson
= mass migration inadvertently creating a cross fertilisation of creativity
The horror of war impacted on the public perception of art
at the same time war artists were censored with regards to
images deemed acceptable
14. What becomes of the work of art?
Now there is the camera, mass production an aspiring middle class, advancing technologies
A lossof uniqueness, originalityandaura
16. (Harrison, 2002, pp.18-19)
Focusing on the visual arts
Modernism & modernists: a response with tendencies
‘Stressing the role of the imagination in realising human
potential…the capacity to imagine a different order of things.’4
‘A scepticism of received ideas and beliefs…and an inclination to
regard direct experience as the true source of knowledge.’
A determination to break with the past and ‘the legacy of
classicism in its aristocratic forms…’
‘A confidence in the possibility of progress and the betterment in
human societies, to be brought about through the exploitation of
technological advances…’
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17. Robert Delaunay Champs de Mars:
The Red Tower 1923
Fritz Lang Metropolis 1929
Charlie Chaplin Modern Times 1936
Ferdinand Leger The Barge Man 1918
21. Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase 1912 - Bicycle Wheel 1913 - Bottle Dryer - - "L.H.O.O.Q." - (1919) - Phonetically: "elle a chaud au cul" or "She's got a hot ass."
22. Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917
Andy Warol
‘They have taken my readymades and found aesthetic beauty in
them. I threw…the urinal into their face as a challenge and now
they admire them for their aesthetic beauty!’
Marcel Duchamp
27. Modern Art – What a Load of Rubbish!
In 1972, Britain's Tate Gallery acquired Andre's Equivalent VIII, an arrangement of fireplace bricks. The piece
was exhibited several times without incident, but became the center of controversy in 1976 after being
featured in an article in The Sunday Times and later being defaced with paint. The "Bricks controversy"
became one of the most famous public debates in Britain about contemporary art.[10]
28. Or is it?
Thomas Gainsborough
Pablo Picasso
Split into two groups and prepare to debate for and against
Modernism
