19th Century Aesthetics Movement Research Paper

Though the start of the modernisation may trace back to the beginning of Industrial Revolution. “Modernism in the design world did not exist in a fully developed form, until well after First World War.” (Wilk, 2006) Causing the great loss of lives and other countless damage to the world, it reshaped many people’s way of thinking the world. With the inspiration of early avant-garde movement, the modernism began to emerge advocating an utopian future and shared certain core principles by various styles of modernists: rejecting the past and applied ornament; forms follow function, a preference for

These design outcomes came from two very contrasting movements. The Arts and craft Movement and the Bauhaus movement. The Arts and Crafts Movement was an international design movement that thrived between 1800 and 1910. The main influence was writer and designer William Morris. William Morris was one of the most influential designers of the Arts and crafts movement. He led the way for the practice of producing and designing without the

The 1920s were a time of great prosperity and revitalization. This decade gave way to many great social milestones for every class of people. From the limits for immigration to the boom of the auto industry American society was drastically altered. Issues such as foreign immigration,prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan ,evolution, women’s roles, and race were the focus of the populus and drove politics within the nation. Art played a major role in how the black community expressed their new found sense of culture. Painting has always been a way for someone to portrait their ideas.

The Arts and Craft movement was a social and artistic movement, which began in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century and continued into the twentieth spreading to continental Europe and the USA. Its adherents-artists, architects, designers and Craftsmen sought to reassert the importance of and craftsmanship in all arts in the face of increasing industrialization, which they felt was sacrificing quality in the pursuit of quantity. Its supporters and practioners were united not so much by a style rather than the common goal- a desire to break down the hierarchy of the arts and to revive traditional handicrafts and make art that could be affordable to all.

The impressionism movement was a reaction to the realism and romantic movement. Instead of detailed, accurate and photo-like paintings of contemporary life of realism and romanticism, Impressionist painters used more blurred brush reality to the canvas. Specific techniques Impressionist artists used were unblended colors and quick, short brush strokes with a unique play on light. An Impressionist artists' goal was to "objectively paint reality in terms of transient effects of light and color." The artists of this movement would paint vibrant contrasting colors directly on to the canvas, which was a great contrast to the traditional art of blending somber colors. Confused and ridiculed by this technique, the Salon of the French Academy consistently rejected most of the artwork done by Impressionist artists. These rejections of artwork eventually led a group of artists to organize their own exhibitions, Exhibitions of the independent Artists.

Art has been a recurring part of history from the very beginning. As society changes so does the style of art. Each new style is known as a movement and one of the most prominent, long-lasting movements in recent centuries is known as Modernism. Modernism is characterized by its deviation from tradition. People who are a part of this movement found enjoyment in finding new mediums to use, creating art that revolves around feelings and emotions rather than reality. Abstract idealisms of modernism cause its viewers to need to think more critically about the art before them. In past movements, the meaning of the work was obvious as it was created to mimic reality.

There are not many artists in the world of sculptors that can compare or surpass the work of these two artists. The comparison that I will make is between two different artists who happened to create a marble statue of the biblical David but did it differently and during different eras of art. Michelangelo created his seventeen feet, standing nude male statue of David first during the renaissance era between the year 1501 and 1504 in the 16th century while Gian Lorenzo Bernini did it later in 1624 using the baroque style which was the artistic style of the 17th century (Coughlan, 18). The artwork of these two artists goes a long way in defining the state of art culturally and stylistically its significance during the particular periods they created their respective statues of David.

Art in the nineteenth century can be described as very traditional, similar, romantic, and simple. Stepping into the twentieth century, artists turned to color, angles, and new incredibly unconventional styles. Major art forms such as cubism, futurism, fauvism, non-objective, and the international style were born. Artists became more creative and inspired by the new age. All three styles rejected the traditional ways of nineteenth century art and entered the new century with unconventional and revolutionary techniques and pieces that have changed the way artists think and create still to this day.

The many technological advances made during the Victorian Era in England drastically altered the way scientists, artists, and the public viewed art and aesthetics. Aesthetics came to be a branch of philosophy that contained a set of principles concerning nature and appreciation of beauty and art. Due to this change, a European art movement, known as the Aesthetic Movement, occurred in the late nineteenth century. This movement was based on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty and appreciation alone. Therefore, art did not need to serve any political, educational, or other purpose. It emphasized the importance of aesthetic values over moral and social themes in literature and the arts. The movement started as a reaction to the dominance of scientific thinking and the hostility of the middle class society to judge whether or not art was useful or teaching morals. One of the most prevalent values of the movement was suggestion as opposed to statement because no one could judge or try to reason the creation of any

2. How the human form was represented has changed drastically throughout history. Some of the the ways in which the representation of the human body in sculpture evolved over time are evident in comparing works of art such as Menkaure and his Queen Kah-merer-nebti II, Doryphoros, the Farnese Hercules, and Prima Porta Augustus.

Modernism is a cultural movement that generally includes art, architecture, music, literature, and design which emerged before 1914. It was a movement of artist and designers who rebelled against late19th century historicist traditions, and

The events that took place during the beginning of the nineteenth century cause the monumental change in art. That monumental event during that time was the Patriotic War of 1812, which centered on the French army invasion of Russia, with Napoleon leading the French. While the Patriotic War of 1812 was a big turn in history it was only a part of the Napoleonic Wars, which lasted from the mid-1800 to 1814. The progression of war had drawn the attention of the whole Russian society. There were disasters and afflictions, with common hopes and joys causing the disperse of the social borders between classes. High ranking generals and peasant soldiers alike proved to be just mortal. Yes human since the people of high class at the time were viewed as godlike in the eye of the lower class.

Everyone has been created unique and there is no other that is the like anyone else. People think different, dress different and like and dislike certain things. This is similar to the artists of the nineteenth century including Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau and Joseph Mallord William Turner. They are both artists during the nineteenth century and were painted at the same time; however, there is a difference between their styles, their point of view, and the scenery. However there are similarities between the two paintings. The paintings that will be compared and contrasted are “Under the Birches, Evening” and “The Campo Santo, Venice.”

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Internationalism in aesthetics made a first debut in the first international congress of Aesthetics, held in 1913 in Berlin. But it was confined within the limits of Western literature. The gap between the occidental and the oriental aesthetics remained as ever before. But due to the zeal of renaissance spirit,scholars in the East, particularly in India, China and Japan, and orientalists in the West started writing on oriental arts and aesthetics in English and other European languages. Their works made the western aestheticians recognise that "oriental art contains important values not attained by art in the west”(Munru 13) led to the discovery of important insights in oriental aesthetics, applicable to art and aesthetic experience everywhere and made many Western artists and critics believe that the Western art has much to learn from Eastern methods.