Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Modernism
- Bohemian culture, avant garde embraced modernism in political or philosophical
opposition to middle class complacency. had a profound effect and influence on art as it is
today. The machine age, industrial production.
- Avant-Garde, Front line, ideas and concepts.
- Expressionism
- Expressionists used craft based techniques
- Cubism
- Reacting against the "prettifying
nature" of Impressionism, Cubist
artists focused on intellectual issues
concerning the two-dimensional
picture-plane. (re-write)
- Futurism
- Committed to the new, its
members wished to destroy older
forms of culture and to
demonstrate the beauty of modern
life - the beauty of the machine,
speed, violence and change
- Dada
- Dadaists deplored the use of machinery to wage war.
- Surrealism
- Aimed to generate an entirely new
set of imagery by liberating the
creative power of the unconscious
mind.
- Constructivism
- Noted for their integration of art,
technology and industrial design.
- De Stijl
- basic visual elements such as geometric
forms and primary colours. reaction against
the decorative excesses of Art Deco,
- Bauhaus
- Unity of art & design
from typography to
tableware, clothes,
furniture and art.
- Flat and lack of depth except some aspects of surrelisam.
- A collection of ideas
- Rejects tradition and embraces abstraction.
- Desire to create a better world
- Art and design can transform society.
- Technology is the key to achieve social improvement.
- Left leaning social and political beliefs
- Art -simplistic /
text smooth
lines abstract
imagination
reflects nature
- Architecture, modern materials/
incorporated into landscape/
simplistic/ strong lines and curves/
galss and steel/ Flat roofs
- Furniture - Simplicity / Geometry/ polished metal/ primary colours
- Modern art is its own master, traditional art was dedicated to religious
ideology or reality. Picasso said "All you have is yourself" "I dont paint the world
i see, i paint the world as i imagine it."
- Visual communication - Collage & photo montages - displayed at
times of Political, social & emotional upheaval Design and art
could and should transform society. Make visible the invisible