Modernism

MODERNISM - MODERNITY

• Progression of modern life becomes accepted, mainly due to the Pre-Raphaelites
• Urbanisation of the city began to take place
• Paris was one of the most modern cities in the world
• Science and philosophical thinking highly developed
• Looking at the term "post modern"
• "Paris on a rainy day' - Gustave Caillebotte

• ^^^^The new cinematic artwork coming from the modern artists
• Its new, its exciting. & it represents the excitement of the world around them
• Its not a painting about these people in the frame but more about the changes of the modern world around them.

• A noticable increase in the division of the classes
• With the new invention of photography, paintings naturally become more cinematic, representing new changes.
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MODERNISM IN DESIGN

• The modern materials - truth to materials
• Form follows function
• Almost speaking the new modern language
• Moved away from ornamental design
• The Bauhaus
• Looking at mass production
• Harry Beck designed the london underground, looking at a new international form of communication.
• A new visual language
• San serif fontSimplicity
• Purity
• The new excitement of the modern life characterised through design
• Creating this new modern world which they want to live in
• Common language
• Anti historicism
• New materials
• Le Corbusier design of the 'ideal city', 1922
• Social & culture experience
• Looking at an improved way of living