Sunday, 23 November 2014

Modernism in Art

Modernism (1850-1970)
 - Experimental
 - Radical
 - Revolutionary
 - Ready-made
 - Primitive
 - Expressive truth
 - Art and industry
 - Internationalism

 - Changing rights for women
 - Japonism
 - Association with art and abstraction

Example of surrealist cinema - 'Un Chien Andalou' (Luis Bunuel, 1929)

 - Simplicity
 - Symmetry
 - Abstraction
 - Consistency
 - Unity
 - Organisation
 - Economy

Names linked with modernism
 - Karl Marx
 - Igor Stravinsky
 - Pina Bausch
 - Bertolt Brecht
 - Walter Benjamin
 - TS Elliot
 - Andre Breton
 - Salvador Dali
 - Bela Bartok
 - Arnold Schoenburg

Postmodern Shift
 - Parody
 - Pastiche (Soft mockery)
 - Bricolage (Tat)
 - Kitsh (Giving object more value than it actually has)
 - Banal (Pointless)
 - Intertextual (Reference)
 - Appropriated (Taking something to make your own)
 - Plundered (Stolen)

Modern
 - Production
Post Modern
 - Consumption

Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle, 1967)

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