Museum Of Modernism

In 1927, Alice Van Brown in Wellesley College gave the opportunity of teaching modern art history class to Alfred Barr, this was not only his first legit attempt to teach but also it was the first time in United Stated to introduce a course concerning about pure modernism. Van Brown gave full authority to Barr to teach a course founded through his ideas and principles for modern art. This opportunity not only helped him raise an awareness in an American society but also helped to expand himself on this field as he searched solutions for clearing the complexity of modernism. At the end of this course Barr’s aim was to create an acceptance for modernism not only for his students but for general perception. His department focused only on modern

The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) is honoured to present an exhibition titled ‘Image and Text: A Feminist Narrative’, with which it will be opening its door to the public on the 12th September and closing on the 15th October. When image and text are integrated with one another in the creation of contemporary art, artists are able to produce powerful and extremely effective messages of their choice. However, just because the image and text are displayed together, does not mean they relate to each other, as the text can either support the image, or contradict the image in order to demonstrate the transparency of either or both elements (Williams and Simpson, 1994). Two artists who have been able to incorporate image and text in their pieces are, contemporary American artist, Barbara Kruger and contemporary Australian artist, Jenny Watson. Here at GOMA were have created the ‘Image and Text: A Feminist Narrative’ to displays the provocative and stimulating ways Kruger and Watson have used both text and image to convey personal, dream, socio-political and feminist narratives. Whilst Barbara Kruger is an American feminist whose work is centred around critiquing advertising culture and the representation of women during said advertising, Jenny Watson is an Australian feminist who uses expressive figurative images and incorporates text panels similar to autobiographical diary entries. The combination of these two artists display strong messages to their audience, doing so in an

I chose to travel to the Museum of Modern Art for this assignment. Once I was there, I wasn’t sure which artwork I wanted to focus my analysis on. At first I was overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of the museum (I have never been), but after a little while I gained my bearings and began to explore for 20th century art. After viewing many of the paintings that we discussed in depth in class and many that we did not, I decided to write my analysis on “Street Light,” by Giacomo Balla. I chose this painting because the colors and aspects of it intrigue me. I am also familiar with it, which can help aid me in my analysis. I was extremely interested when we discussed Futurism in class, and I was happy that I could find something in the Museum of Modern Art that had to do with that particular movement, especially a painting that we touched upon. The painting itself was much larger than I anticipated in person, and stood taller than me the way it was mounted on the wall. The colors were more vibrant than any picture online could convey, and I found that I had to restrain myself from physically touching the lines of color that symbolized the street lamps light. Up close, I was able to notice the finer details of the work. The lines seemed a little messier and more hastily painted than I had originally thought, however, this added to the movement of the piece overall. I found myself wishing that the lines of color pushed to the boundaries of the painting rather than ending before

Modernism is characterized by the rejection of tradition. Creatives of the Modernist era questioned what came before, looking for fresh ways to interpret familiar subjects, rejecting historical themes while searching for a means to understand and communicate the present (Medina 1995). Furthermore, Belting (2003, 17) states Modernism embraced “all the crises and schisms of the modern world”. The key points of this paper will be ascertained through the evaluation of four European Modernist artworks produced between 1860 and 1935. These artworks include La Montagne Saint Victoire by Paul Cézanne displaying angular lines, color modulation, and geometricized forms; a classic example of Divisionism and Pointillism by Georges Seurat - Sunday

Throughout this essay I am going to explore a range of artists and show you how modernism changed throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s in photography, I am also going to explore Modernism in Graphic Design as well. “Photographers began to Work with Sharp focus and an emphasis on formal qualities, exploiting, rather than obscuring, the camera as an essentially mechanical and technological tool” (Artsy.net)

Modernism at its core focuses on the culture, society and world during the time in which works were made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. While Modernism encompassed a handful of unique styles and movements, only one in particular took an interest in the qualities of dreamlike states and unconsciousness: Surrealism. The Surrealist period dates back to beginning in 1925 and ending in 1945. Members of this art movement worked together closely in an organized fashion under their leader Andre Breton. Under Breton’s work the First Surrealist Manifesto written in 1924, he laid down the movement’s foundation and created a stepping stone for other artists to follow behind. Through this text and the artist’s works, “the Surrealists laid the foundation for a type of artistic practice that continues to maintain its relevance.”1 Surrealist artists took a stand against the formal workings of the everyday, trained artist and instead looked within themselves to create works turning away from control and logical reasoning that continuously inspires artists even to this day.

In his seminal lecture on Modernism in Architecture at McGill University School of Architecture on 21 October 2000, Arthur Erickson espoused Modernism as an artistic movement that “released [society] from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom” (Erickson, 2000). Modernism, as an artistic movement, is defined as a genre that aimed to transcend and subvert the limitations of traditional literary conventions of the Romantic, Realist and Victorian literary movements, and eagerly championed for new and innovative experimentation in both form and style (Cooper, pg. 9). Flowered into Society by

Modernism is hallmarked by its refusal to submit to convention – it rejected mimesis (realism) and pioneered new ways of expression, on a quest to find meaning in the chaotic and subjective human condition.

Modernism is an era, which is against the previous Victorian, Romantic, and Realistic eras in 19th and 20th century. In that time, in order to understand reality, experience is more important than rational science. Modernism is a new door to 20th century artists’ to look at the world from different perspectives, because after the World War One, people became disillusioned by the previous eras and also we can say that this era is an age of Anxiety and Dilemma. In that period of time, we can see strong relationship ties between artists and representation of reality. Modernism was a kind of escape from the previous eras and this situation hit the headlines among this time’s artists.

The modernism period was a time for art to search for a new form of expression. It was a movement in western art which had develops in the middle of the 19th century and tried to capture the pictures and sensibilities of the age. Modernism art expand way beyond simply dealing with the present and involves the critical examination from the artist masterpieces. Modernism advance a era of testing in the arts from the mid 19th to the mid-20th century, coming after World War I. in the era where it was characterized by industrialization, being advanced in science which lead to society changes. Postmodernism started in the late 20th century. It’s characterized as a “general suspicion of reason”

“I think, therefore I am.” is a well known phrase said by René Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician, meaning that “I will only believe what I can see and prove”. Modernism is a movement of all creative forms like art, literature, music and so on, which began roughly around the 1850’s till approximately the 1970’s when it slowed down in Western society. It is characterized by the rejection of traditional aspects and the progression of innovation through science, technology and discovery, and has impacted the economical, social and cultural attitude, and debates the axiom of the Age of Enlightenment. Whereas modern art is the subsequent response to the new viewpoint and customs of current time and ideal visions of human life, society and belief in progress, by embracing the innovative and experimental styles, and then producing unconventional artworks that pushes how society and culture is today in art movements, as it is driven by political and social agendas, examples like Symbolism, Cubism, Dadaism. I will be covering how modernism, seen in modern art, is modern, due to the social effects of capitalism, which is the imbalance in social systems, progression in society, destruction of human value, economical progression and an increased standard of living.

In the past five weeks, we have covered a great deal of material in this course. I remember my first day coming to class, I had to check my schedule multiple times to ensure that I was in the correct place. After spending hours of my morning in back-to-back philosophy courses, medieval and 20th-century, I was convinced that I had somehow walked into another philosophy class rather than English. However, as it turns out, I was in the right place. It also turns out that I did know very much about modernism or literary modernism. I soon discovered that modernist literature is greatly rooted in the philosophical movement of modernism that took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a movement that centered on the heightened awareness of the self.

These techniques were used to explore the suddenly messy, fragmentary nature of modern life. Most of the modernist writers wrestled with the sense that some aspects of human society were lost with the loss of traditional values. Therefore, much of literature and art produced during this time included a sensation of searching which is the reason modernists are referred to as “the lost generation.”

Modernism in general can broadly be described as the “deviation from the ancient and classic manner”. (Johnson, J., The New Royal and Universal English Dictionary, Millard, 1763). It is the radical movement away from the past in search of new styles of expression. It refers to a reforming movement away from the traditional forms in various fields like architecture, art, music, and literature during the late 19th century and the

The Modernist era was a social and cultural movement characterised by rapid social and technological change in the 19th and 20th century. The art movement revolved around a group of innovative artists and art critics who challenged preconceived ideas about what “good” art was, and redefined expectations. Modernism affected the ideas and practices of artists, increasing the attitude of the Avant-Garde – to be original. Abstraction was explored visually and artists moved away from pictorial realism, bringing into focus new techniques and acceptances. Abstract Expressionist was the final sub-era of Modernism. Artists started to view painting as a performance or experience, rather than a reproduction of an object – real or imagined. It was