The Birth Of Modernism And Modern Art

During the 1870s a new category of art formed known as the Aesthetic Movement, which was based upon not what world was around the art, but the art itself (Pohl 284). This movement originated in England and spread throughout the Americas opposing the current views about art during the time the it arose, which was the ideology that art must always serve some sort of clandestine purpose. Artists who supported the Aesthetic Movement also denied any moral values that people gave to art. The painting that I chose that best fits the ideals of aestheticism is In the Studio, 1880 by William Merritt Chase. During the 19th century industrialization rapidly began to change American culture bringing on consumerism and capitalism, which focused on the

The Bauhaus School, founded in Germany by architect Walter Gropius in 1919, was initially a school of Arts and Crafts. The Arts and Crafts movement, associated with rich ornamentation and exotic materials sought to unite artists and craftspeople to ensure the survival of beautiful craftsmanship post industrialisation. Gropius wanted to take this further by engaging technology in this process. However, at a time of political turmoil and economic hardship excessive design

The Bauhaus was established in Weimar in 1919, with the architect Walter Gropius as its founder and first director (Harrison and Wood 1993, p. 338). The school was founded on Gropius’s principle of the importance of combining and unifying all the artistic and technical realms; a separation, which had been to the detriment of existing art schooling (Girard 2003, p. 6-­‐7). Gropius wanted to combine art and technology or “culture and civilisation” (Droste 2012, p. 15). The Bauhaus consisted of workshops with two distinct instructors, a “craft master” who was a

Before the 19th century, artists mainly made artwork for the wealthy people and the religious groups. They were controlled by the academy and painted in a way that mainstream society recognized. Many of their paintings depicted scenes of mythology and church. However in the 19th century, industrialization brought many new technologies to ordinary people, making the impossible possible. Many artists began to create artworks to explore the concept of symbolism. Many of their subjects were daily things such as ordinary people, normal places and the things they had direct experience on. They challenged the traditional concept that artists must depict realistic worlds. Instead, they used a wide range of colors, materials and techniques to

The Bauhaus movement began shortly after the world war 1 in 1919 to re imagine the materialistic good to reflect how we perceive art works. It was a movement initiated by a German architect named Walter Groupius.The Bauhaus movement embraced and emphasized on the simplicity and the basis of a design. (Griffith 2007) The idea behind the movement was to design and manufacture beautiful and practical products using simple and economical techniques. The ideology of the school was not only to reflect society but improve it by combining simplistic beauty with productivity. (Naylor 1968) The Bauhaus implied form follows function which is created by a cross platform of functional craftsmanship in every field whilst experimenting and using different materials.

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.

At its inception, modernist art was shocking and evocative to the traditional “academic exceptions of artwork.” Unlike much of the artwork that came before, modernist paintings sought to engage the audience for the first time and inspired new ideas. This form of art was critical of society and represented a new pathway for artists to explore their intellect and creativity. Artists broke the “norms” of what was not allowed previously in art. In the past, traditional academic expectations for art where governed by rules that the artist had to follow. Art was produced for the rich and powerful, whether they came from the church or were simply wealthy members of government. With the rise of modernist art though, artists began to make “art for the sake of art” (Barrett, 20).

Art is word that most individuals have an idea, a mental category, of yet often fail to truly define. This is due to the fact that art is a term that has existed for thousands of years and thus its meaning and lexicography has changed drastically over the years based on endless factors. Art started off being defined as a craft, measured by the technical prowess of the artist and used as tool in the retelling of history or for religious practices and doctrine. From there, it evolved into a practice of replication, attempting to create the most realistic of images, particularly around the time of the renaissance, with the invention of linear perspective and a growing understanding of human anatomy based on dissection. In the renaissance, the more technically capable an artist is in recreating life, the more talented he is seen to be. However, movements like impressionism, a reaction to the invention of photography, now aimed for, not realism, but the capturing of the impression of the image, using colour and broad brushstrokes, giving pieces an unfinished look. Symbolism and expressionism aimed for a less literal view of the world. In reaction to freud’s interpretation of dreams, surrealism aimed to explore the creative potential of the human psyche, while the modernist movement resulted in art that can be as simple as painting squares on a canvas or signing your name on a urinal. A giant rock, misplaced, is now recognized as art. Erecting a giant curtain on a piece of land

Out of the collision of ideals derived from Romanticism, and an attempt to find a way for knowledge to explain that which was as yet unknown, came the first wave of works in the first decade of the 20th century, which, while their authors considered them extensions of existing trends in art, broke the implicit contract with the general public that artists were the interpreters and representatives of bourgeois culture and

Art is a diverse range of creating oral or visual artworks. Artists can express their emotions and show their imaginative skills on something as simple as a piece of paper. Modern artists include Rene Magritte, August Macke, and Franz Marc, but what about not so modern artists? Artists like Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh existed in the 19th through the 20th centuries where art was a great factor in their everyday lives. The 19th and 20th centuries offered three very distinct styles of painting that changed the way people view art today.

The Modern Art Era is a pretty large expanse of time. It ranges from the 1860’s to the 1960’s and presents itself in a variety of techniques and styles. I myself am a photographer so I thought it was fitting to focus on something I am interested in. I chose to research Imogen Cunningham and her contributions to the modern era as a female photographer. I mainly chose Imogen because a lot of her work reminded me of things that I want to attempt to create as well as things that I have photographed.

Modernism began in 19th century and at the beginning of World War II Modernism is a philosophical movement among the that shaped modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities.The first characteristic with modernism is nihilism today modern art is generally used to describe the succession of art movement that that critics and historians have identified since the realism of Gustave Courbet and culminating in abstract art and its developments in the 1960s.By the 1960’s modernism had become a dominant idea of art and a particularly narrow theory two decades which followed World War II (1945-65) new era that change the way that reality was perceived and portrayed. In the arts, for instance, at the

The year was 1919. World War I had just ended, and new beginnings were arising. Day –to-day life no longer revolved around the fear of the outcome of World War I. The German youth began to see potential in this at the same time that architect Walter Gropius decided to make a huge decision. After some struggle to break stereotypes, he opened a school, called Bauhaus. With its three locations in Germany, the Bauhaus School of Design was able to produce modern art, train diverse artists, and push the limits.

The Bauhaus was established by Walter Gropius (1883-1969)in Germany ,according to the Bauhaus interiors , the Bauhaus is actually a word which has been inverted( suahuab) from a German term which means “building house or house construction ” ( The Bauhaus Movement, 2012) .

The Modernist movement was an intellectual and cultural movement that began at the start of the 20th century and lasted until around 1945. One of the factors that helped shaped Modernism was the development of modern industrial societies as well as the rapid growth of cities. Modernists rejected Enlightenment thinking and some even rejected certain religious beliefs. One characteristic, possibly the most important one, of Modernism was the idea of self-consciousness (Farah). The Modernist movement would influence the literature written such as novels and poetry and would also have an influence on art work during this time period. Three people who were influenced by the modernist movement include F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S Eliot, and Georgia O’ Keeffe.