Modernism/ Post Modernism Aprill 2015
What is Modernism Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bauhaus
Constructivism
Arte Povera
influential modernist art school of the 20th century, one whose approach to teaching, and understanding art’s relationship to society and technology, had a major impact in Europe and the States long after it closed.
was a desire to express the experience of modern life - its dynamism, its new and disorientating qualities of space and time. But also crucial was the desire to develop a new form of art Revolution.
use of common materials that might evoke a preindustrial age, such as earth, rocks, clothing, paper and rope. Their work marked a reaction against modernist abstract painting much of the group’s work is sculptural.
What is Post Modernism Postmodernism is a late-20th-century movement in the arts, architecture, and criticism that was a departure from modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism.
Cubism
Surrealism
Lowbrow Art
objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject
Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself
It is a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comix, punk music, and hot-rod cultures of the street. It is also often known by the name pop surrealism. Lowbrow art often has a sense of humor
Idea 1
Idea 3
From my reserch into the differnet movements in both modernism and post modernism i decided to create two architectual designs based on both movments. The first idea is a idea based on constructivism and surealism, I decided to create this furturist looking building from the images i looked into with constructiveism
This design is a modern design on the aspects of cubism and symety to match the series of the other designs in creating a utopian ciry of the bauhaus princeples.
idea 2
From looking at the buiding and the ideas that the bauhaus has created and looks i decided to re create my own design of what i think a more modern utiopion recreation of the bauhaus.
Art Catalogue Antony Sanderson University Of Huddersfield