Define Modern Art Movement:
When did it begin? How did it begin? momentous changes in politics, economics, and science. The spread of democracy, capitalism, technological innovation. Western power, colonialism, World War I II, the Great Depression.
When did it end? 1980s?
rejection of conventions, a commitment to radical innovation, “the desire to make new (p1061)
by 1920 we would already be able to see almost all the different aspects of twentieth-century art: expressionism, abstract art, cubism, Dada, (Rookmaker 131) Fauvism, Futurism, Constructivism, Purism, Surrealism. . . manifestos
Abstraction
it was the necessary outcome of the long development that we have been tracing from the eighteenth century or even from as far back as the Renaissance.
“It is an expression of a reality: one in which God is dead and man too is dying, loosing his humanity, what makes him man, his personality and individuality.” (Rookmarker, 132)
What are the main principles associated with the Modern Art Movement?
The search for for the absolute and for absurdity
negation of traditional values
pan-eroticism
revolutionary
utopian ideas, radicality
universalism
Avant-Garde: the quest for the new
The Autonomous art object: a quest for purity
Who are the Main Artists, Critics Associated with it and what is the aesthetic character of modern art?
by 1920 we would already be able to see almost all the different aspects of twentieth-century art: expressionism, abstract art, cubism, Dada, (Rookmaker 131) Fauvism, Futurism, Constructivism, Purism, Surrealism. . . manifestos
Five pictures (examples of Modern Art)
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