- Modern culture 1800 scholars believe they were better than past
- In 1800 William Hont was classed as modern
- Modern art was said to improve art and progress
- fasion could not exist without modernism
- We are now living beyond what is classed as modern
- Moderniity existed between 1780 - 1960
- Factories started working in shifts
- Increaded populations in urban areas
- Increased stress and speed
- It seems the world has shrunk due to modern advances in transport and speed
- Cinemas and Music halls designed to distract from modern life
- as well as the invention of Electricity
- Modern + Urban inventions change relationship with com
- Paris Started "House of Industry"
- QPR London designed to impress
- Every 10 years Paris which was height of modernism built a new House of Industry
- Original home of Expositions
- Buildings and monuments such as Eifel Tower were teh first building to use Modern materials and not designed to look like traditional materials
- 1850 world time was agreed by the world due to trains
- Fasion starts to be your identity
- Centre of Paris (where poor people lived) was bulldozed and destroyed and they were moved to the outskirts of the city
- Rich people replace poor in center of city
- Paintings before were mainly based on either Myths or Religion
- when modernism started painters then began to paint their individual experiences of modern life
- Society modernises Art, Not the other way around
- Start of first Psychology due to worries of new technology turning people insane
- All changes forced art to new and different ares
- Degar Painting with woman sitting drowning her sorrows with Absynth as world is so miserable
- The development of Photography then gave art and artists new possibilities
Kaiserpanorama
- in 1883 Kaiserpanorama was invented for people to sit around and view art, photography, landscapes and sometimes soft Pornography.
- People would rather pay to view these images rather than experience it for themselves
- When Cinema first started it scared people to the stage of running screaming out the cinema thinking trains would run them over, like witch craft
- Artists had to think of new interesting ways to compete with photography
- With Photography the world can now be seen in unique and different ways such as birdseye view
- Anti historian-ism, never look backwards
- Truth to materials - let materials speak for themselves
- Form follows function - Bauhaus being innovators of this therory
- New technologies
- Internationalism
- Adolf Loos 1908 "Orniment is Crime", Dont decorate buildings as it will outdate, keep it neutral and the design will last forever
- A language of design that could be understood by any country e.g Harry Bex- Underground map
- Herbert Bayers- sans serif Typeface - Modernist
- 1932 Stanley Morrison - Times Roman
- Nazis despised modernism so Fraktor font was often used
- MODERN- Not neutral always aiming to improve visually
- MODERNITY- 1750 - 1960 social cultural experience
- MODERNISM- Ideas evolved from Modern culture
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