Modernism is defined as the series of reforming cultural movements in music‚ art‚ architecture‚ the applied arts‚ and literature that occurred in the three decades before 1914. In the modern era‚ not only did things change as far as technology with the Industrial Revolution‚ but also with people themselves with awareness and a change in values. During the modern era‚ civilization was founded on scientific knowledge of the world and rational knowledge of values‚ which places the highest premium
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Some would describe modernism to be the rejection of convention in the modern period. Henri Matisse is an artist who worked through the modern period and his work exemplifies the characteristics that apply to the attempted definitions of modernism and modernity. ‘To pick out a work of art as exemplifying modernism is to see it as belonging to a special category within the western culture of the modern period’ (1) So what is it that defines certain works of art and that places them in this category
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art world that humans don’t always have to be aesthetically pleasing (women in particular). Lastly‚ Duchamp (b.1887-1968) started the phase of ‘ready made’ art proving that you don’t need to make something in order for it to be classified as art. Modernism encompassed the most intensive period of change in art history‚ the industrial revolution (1880’s). It did this by focusing on the transformation of atmosphere in regards to machinery (humans becoming redundant)‚ agricultural processes and the manufacturing
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The Roots of Modernism the word ‘modern’ is used to refer to contemporan object or subject matters.In the history of art‚ however‚ the term ‘modern’ is used to refer to a period dating from roughly the 1860s through the 1970s and describes the style and ideology of art produced during that era.The term ‘modernism’ is also used to refer to the art of the modern period. More specifically‚ ‘modernism’ can be thought of as referring to the philosophy of modern art. The roots of modernism lie much deeper
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Through the controversy of romanticism and modernism in Dover Beach‚ Arnold allows for readers to question the importance of life and what it means to fulfill human destiny while harnessing the quintessence of who you are. Arnold gives vivid imagery of the beautiful coastline bordering France to present the challenging contrast that we have the choice to either find fear in the future because of its uncertainty‚ or to embrace the beauty of the present because it is all we have in each moment. In
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be a sign of modernity. Traditions‚ quite often‚ keep us United‚ but modernity‚ usually‚ takes us apart from each other. A tradition implies belief or custom‚ passed on to us by our ancestors. Much of what we do today has its roots in the past. Modernism is in total contras with the ideas or methods of the traditional ones. Old‚ it is said‚ is gold and should be preserved carefully. But it is also an unavoidable fact that old is to be given up for good to enter the New Era. There is a lot in our
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and postmodern art‚ literature‚ and music; film; time and memory; space‚ the city‚ and landscape; the sublime; and the relation between aesthetics and politics. -Jean-Francois Lyotard is a French philosopher best known for his ideas about post-modernism. In this essay‚ lyotard strongly doubts the idea of Habermas about the incomplete project of modernity. He disagrees with habermas in his attempt to bridge the gap between cognitive‚ ethical‚ and political discourse and opening a way to a unity of
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Modernism The Modern Novel As T.S. Eliot once said‚ “Every age gets the art it deserves and every age must accept the art it gets. A complex age like the 20th century‚ upset by two World Wars and marked by unrest and ferments‚ couldn’t as result produce anything but complex art‚ mainly resulting‚ more than in any previous age‚ from experimentation. The search for new forms of expression‚ which affected all branches of literature‚ was carried on first of all in fiction and novel. So far novelists
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Modernism as a movement was a response to the horrors of World War-I and to the rising industrial societies and growth of cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It challenged the harmony and the rationality of the Enlightenment and sought to reinvent art and literature of the age. To do so‚ it broke away from the works of the past and conventions that were earlier held at a pedestal. The conception that reality could be easily be comprehended was replaced by modernism with a more
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“Modernism was a colorful trend‚ it manifested in a different way in many national cinemas. For example the French new wave become famous for its playfulness‚ Italian post-neorealist for the alienation of its neurotic characters‚ the Czechoslovak new wave for its grotesque kitchen sink realism‚ Polish cinema for its historism and the Hungarian new wave for its parabolic stories. But even though its diverse national versions‚ Modernism was an international phenomenon
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