Modernity: Using latest techniques.
Modernism: Early to mid 20th century movement in Art.
The process of modernisation allowed modernism to develop and Flourish.
Pre Modernity : Governed by the Church.
Patriarchy - world dominated by men.
Industrial Revolution influenced Modernity by allowing new techniques through the new technologies, the mass production, and by creating the working class a new culture was born with more people having money to spend.
1750-1789 was the age of enlightenment, during this time people questioned the church, especially Voltaire with his satirical take on religion.
The French Revolution occurred in 1789.
These events helped along the movement of Modernism by allowing three major processes:
Rationalisation, allowing reasoning, mainly through Darwin and the new ideas of evolution.
Secularisation, more and more people where abandoning religion.
Democratisation, more equality, more people where allowed to vote and express there opinions although society remained Patriarchal.
Then there was the invention of Photography, which lead to the start of Bohemianism and an artistic lifestyle in the 1850's. Artists such as William Turner inspired impressionists such as Monet and people such as Cezanne took the impressionism further, as the medium of Photography. This meant developed painters no longer where required to paint to a lifelike style, they could embrace the medium and be a lot freer with the outlet. Then Picasso was even more radical painting a prostitute in an abstract way which led to cubism being developed in 1910. During the time of cubism in Italy, a group started Futurism which was mainly led by Umberto Boccioni.
All of this led up to Modernism whose basic premise was the Form Follows Function. The main properties of Modernist art was the Minimal Aesthetic through the Bauhaus recognised as international style. As well as the art came a new breed of Architects one of the most notable was Le Corbusier, who designed hi-rise flats. He was ahead of his time with a clinically clean aesthetic.
In conclusion Modernism is regarded as an Idealistic, utopian response to war.
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