1700 - 1960 - modernist movement
Modern = to improve, make better / newer and better
William Hunt - Modern in painting style but not ideology
1889 L'exposition
Eiffel tower - Modern/ Steel
Industrial/ Modern aesthetic
Urbanisation - the switch from country to city.
Factory work, working shifts, new communication links
Telephone/ Telegraph
Invention of railways
Standardising time (date)
Trottoir Roulant - moving walkway in paris
Enlightenment - late 18th Century
Scientific/ Philosophical ideas progress
Religion dropped for science
Secularisation
The city - Product not place
Haussmanisation
Napoleon comissioned to redesign Paris city making long straight narrow roads for
modernity and easily policed streets
Social Control
Uncontrollable people kicked out
Worry about life being too fast in 1890
society of alienisation - class difference
Fashion important in class division
Modern shift style work developed further, life becomes controlled by work
Degas 1876 L'Absinthe
Compositionally very modern, very photographic.
Invention of photography becomes important to modernism
Modernist Design:
Anti Historicism (Not to look back, embrace the new)
Times new roman - not modernist, historicist
Truth to materials - No subtlety
Form Follows Function - functionality omes before the look and feel/ aesthetic comes from function
Technology advances
Internationalism - Modernism is an international language
Design to relate to the world
Bauhaus - Representation of Modernity in art. Concrete - modern technology
Post Modernism - to understand that modernism doesn' work to the extreme
Kaiserpanorama 1883
Modern technology - Technological beginnings
Lumiere Brothers
Modernism is a product of a subjective response to modernity
New York-
Modern City, Built in blocks/ grid based
scientific, mathematical.
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