Lecture 1
Modernity & Modernism: An Introduction
Modernity – industrial urbanisation
Modern art response to the city
Modern art & photography
Ikea, mini skirts – modernism
TATE modern
.The New woman/Spanish pavilion (1937).
Modernity is known to have happened between 1750-1960 we are still believed to be in late modernity/post modernism it lasted roughly 200 years but there was a rapid change in those 200 years.
Urbanisation began which saw people moving towards Town centres and with this came shopping, cinemas, galleries etc.
The standardised world clock also happened in this period as the world became such a smaller place as people could travel
And with the world clock came shifts in jobs created and holidays in the year.
Enlightenment in the late 18th century saw science making leaps and bounds.
Secularisation – we see city life exploding making a much denser life style/fragmented, the city life is born.
.Caillebottle ‘paris on a rainy day’.1877
Clothes began to stereotype people
Paris Haussmanisation to redesign paris to ‘modernise’ paris
Crime was rife before redesign.
Potraits of alienisation even though you would have been surrounded by millions of people.
Psychology experiments began on modernity on people apparently the dense life of a city makes people a lot more distracted .
Modernism is city life forced upper-class and lower-class together
Degas (1876) L’Absinthe – a painting about having to get pissed due to you not being able to tolerate your job.
‘kaiserpanorama 1883 – a round viewing device for erotic pictures art in photography’
people prefer to view a modern life through technology rather than enjoy it.
The first cinema had a show with a train approaching the screen and any one that went to watch it ran out of the cinema terrified thinking it was real
Modernism emerges out of the subjective responses of artists/designers to modernity.
Modernist paintings of dense modernist city life attempt to create the psychological experience the subject has rather than what it looks like.
When photography was invented it captured image perfect, so painting had to adapt to this and have reason to be used.
‘Alfred Stieglitz Flatiron building 1903’
sky scrapers gave us new ways of seeing the world
Paul Citreon - Metropolis 1923
George Grosz + John Heartfield
Marcel Duchamp
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