- idea of progression
- Doing some new or different for the time
- People shifting towards towns or citys for work
- Modernity gave the idea of world time so set shifts where given and time off.
Caillebotte showed modernity in his painting, they showed distance between people and that the rich and poor had to mingle.
Degas and his "L'Absinthe" painting showed how horrible peoples lives where and that they had to have a drink after work to make it better.
New Paris (after 1850's)
- Old paris had narrow streets and run down housing
- Large boulevards were put in which made it easyer to police
- City centre became expensive and for the rich
- Haussman helped to redesign
Lumiere Brothers
Their short films showed videos from the top of the Eiffel tower, these videos gave people new prospectives of things they would never otherwise of seen.
Mone
His paintings described sense of smell of the modernity in his paintings, Artists had to start using new methods to produce work as photography captured images perfectly, almost rendering painting pointless.
- Citys and skyscrapers gave new prospectuses
- photomontage and collage
- methods of showing modernity
Modernism in Design
- Anti-historicism
- truth to materials
- form follows function
- tecnology
- internationalism
- Beauty comes from simplicity
- Anti-historicism - no need to look backwards style
- ornament is crime - adolf loos 1908
- truth to materials - simple geometric forms appropriate to the materials being sold
Technologies
- Mass production
- Cheap and widely accessible
- design that could be understood on an international scale
- The term modern is not a neutral term it suggests novelty and improvement
- Modernity (1750-1960)
- modernism range of ideas and styles that sprung from modernity
- a vocabulary of styles
- art&design education
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