The impact of industrial revolution on modern art
Impact of Industrial Revolution on Modern Art at the turn of the 20th Century.
To understand most period and movements in modern art, one must first understand the context in which they occurred. When one looks at the various artistic styles, one will realize how artists react to historical and cultural changes and how artists perceive their relation to society.
The transition between the 19th and 20th century has brought further development of modernistic ideas, concepts and techniques in art. Inspired by Cezanne’s idea, saying that all nature objects can be illustrated with just three geometrical figures: cube, sphere and cone, Pablo Picasso created his first paintings, which became the icons of modern art and cubism movement in particular. The industrial revolution and the early 20th century introduced fauvism with its expressively vivid colours verging on aggression in the works of Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminch and Raoul Dufy. German painters Franz Marc, August Macke, Gabriele Münter and others developed their own version of fauvism and called it expressionism. Italian artists, refusing everything with old roots and inspired by the rapid development of technology, appearance of first cars and airplanes, developed in their turn the art movement under the name “futurism”. Finally, surrealism, exploring the secrets of dreams and filling art with psychological meaning, reached its apogee during the early 20th century with the works of Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Rene Margritte and fantastic Salvador Dali.
Origins of Modern Art
In the second half of the 19th century painters began to revolt against the classic codes of composition, careful execution, harmonious colouring, and heroic subject matter. Patronage by the church and state sharply declined at the same time that artists' views became more independent and subjective. Such artists as Courbet, Corot and others of the Barbizon School, Manet, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec chose to
To understand most period and movements in modern art, one must first understand the context in which they occurred. When one looks at the various artistic styles, one will realize how artists react to historical and cultural changes and how artists perceive their relation to society.
The transition between the 19th and 20th century has brought further development of modernistic ideas, concepts and techniques in art. Inspired by Cezanne’s idea, saying that all nature objects can be illustrated with just three geometrical figures: cube, sphere and cone, Pablo Picasso created his first paintings, which became the icons of modern art and cubism movement in particular. The industrial revolution and the early 20th century introduced fauvism with its expressively vivid colours verging on aggression in the works of Henri Matisse, Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminch and Raoul Dufy. German painters Franz Marc, August Macke, Gabriele Münter and others developed their own version of fauvism and called it expressionism. Italian artists, refusing everything with old roots and inspired by the rapid development of technology, appearance of first cars and airplanes, developed in their turn the art movement under the name “futurism”. Finally, surrealism, exploring the secrets of dreams and filling art with psychological meaning, reached its apogee during the early 20th century with the works of Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Rene Margritte and fantastic Salvador Dali.
Origins of Modern Art
In the second half of the 19th century painters began to revolt against the classic codes of composition, careful execution, harmonious colouring, and heroic subject matter. Patronage by the church and state sharply declined at the same time that artists' views became more independent and subjective. Such artists as Courbet, Corot and others of the Barbizon School, Manet, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec chose to