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Modernism

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Modernity & Modernism

Langlands & Bell

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'Unité d'Habitation' in Marseille

What is Modernism?

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Where did it all Start?

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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

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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

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Royalty – The Chruch – Wealthy Patrons

Joshua Reynolds

Portrait of Mary Wordsworth, Lady Kent

Thomas Gainsborough

Mr &Mrs Andrews

Caravaggio

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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 TimeEducation

Aspirations

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The Flaneur

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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

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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!

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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

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Mass Production

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What becomes of the work of art? Now there is the camera, mass production an aspiring middle class, advancing technologies

A loss of uniqueness, originality and aura

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Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud

Rene Magritte

Fillippo Marinetti

Karl Marx

Diego Rivera

Political Idealism

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(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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Robert Delaunay Champs de Mars:

The Red Tower 1923

Fritz Lang Metropolis 1929

Charlie Chaplin Modern Times 1936

Ferdinand Leger The Barge Man 1918

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Piet Mondrian

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Bauhaus

Form followed Function

Transformation of technology and science

Wassily chair

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Hannah Hoch Dada Panoram 1919

Georges Braque 1910

Dada

Colonial Theft

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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."

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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

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Clement Greenberg

Live Bell

Roger Fry

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Paul Cezanne Mont Ste, Victoire 1902 Jackson Pollock Blue Pole; No 111 Detail

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Alfred H. Barr Jr.: Cubism and Abstract Art, 1936

MODERNISM

1880 - 1945

Post Impressionism 1880 - 1900

Expressionism 1900 - 1920

Fauvism 1900 - 1920

Cubism 1907 - 1914

Dada 1916 - 1922

Bauhaus 1920s - 1940's

Harlem Renaissance 1920s - 1940's

Surrealism 1924 1920s - 1940's

International Style 1920s - 1940's

Abstract Expressionism 1945 - 1960

Op Art 1960s

Pop Art 1960s

Post Modernism

Minimal Art 1960s

New Realism 1970s - 1980s

Conceptual Art 1970s - 1980s

Performance Art 1970s - 1980s

Neo-Expressionism 1980s - 1990s

Computer Art 1980s - 1990s

Post-Modern Classicism 1980s - 1990s Victorian Revival 1980s -

1990s

Cities linked to specific

movements

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Barbara Kruger

Modernist Utopia

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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]

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Or is it?

Thomas GainsboroughPablo Picasso

Split into two groups and prepare to debate for and against

Modernism