Paris – a city designed to be modern.
The city – the locus of modernity.
Media – new technologies.
Modernity – class divisions – more noticeable, becomes obvious.
Change of working patterns – work takes over your life, free time is rationed.
Time standardized – because of trains.
Novelty.
Modern – to be moder is to be new, cutting edge, contemporary, good, positivity, improvement.
Modernity – the condition of living in the modern. 1790 ish – 1960. Modern society.
Modernism – crosses every genre of society, individuals subjective responses to the modern and modernity.
Alexander cabonel ‘birth of venus’ 1863.
Not a response to modernity, fantastical, kitsch, traditional style, doesn’t aim to be new.
Venus – god of love, flirtatious pose.
Manet ‘olympia’ 1863, doesn’t look.
Clear class divide, shes a prostitute, banned from the salon, shocking, a critique of what art was, challenging pose, strong, experienced woman.
titans venus of urbino 1538. Fantasy of the ideal – male.
Gustav corbet – origin of the world 1866.
Photographic composition, no face, just tits and fanny.
Picassos – les demoiselles d’avignon 1907.
5 prostitues from his favourite brothel, based on African masks he stole, a new style, new aesthetic, inspired by sequential images.
Callibotte – le pont de l’europe 1876.
References new idea of flaneur, shows class divide, the new replacing the old, the bridge revels in its modernity, new technologies, inventions.
Caillebotte – jeune homme (1875)
Caillebotte – a balcony (1880) overlooking the new world.
A style that tries to be new, pointelism, made up of dots.
Spare time is controlled, on a break from the factory in the background.
Degas (1876) l’absinthe.
Underside of modernity, reflection of not all good.
Alfred Stieglitz – ‘the hand of man’ (1902) shows the trains, lifes quicker, seccularisation – mans world now, not gods world.
Negative – look what mans done.
Positive – look how weve changed the world.
Alfred Stieglitz (1903) flatiron building. Controlling nature and dominating.
Giacomo balla – visual attempt to capture the speed of a car going past.
Futurist – key modernist movement.
Gets rid of all the conventional rules of typeography.
A new technique of printing onomatopaic . thought war was the ultimate modern thing.
Herbert bayers san serif typeface – form follows function.
Bauhaus – embraces new technology and materials, practical, functional, impersonal, international.
International language of design that can be understood by anyone.
Modernism in design
Anti historicism
Truth to materials
Form follows function
Technology
Internationalism
3 photographs of things found on travels which are modernist.
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