Friday, 14 October 2011

Notes from Context of Practice lecture 1 "Modernism and Modernity"

Modernism and Modernity

  •  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
Urbanisation
  • 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 
Exposition 
  • 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
 Paris
  • 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
Modernism in Design 
  • 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  
 Internationalism
  • 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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