Lecture 1 - Modernity and Modernism

• Form follows Function
• Modernity - Industrialization, Urbanization of the city.
• Modern artists response to the city.
• John Ruskin
• Use of colour was modern.
• 20th Century modernism - Improvement, progression.
• Paris was the most progressive city.
• Urban life was radically different.
• 1700 Modernity began
• Dense cities
• The world shrinks so to speak, trains, telephones, cinema, electricity.
• Modernity changed peoples relationships with families and friends.
• Cultural Race for supremacy - technology progresses
• Process off rationality and reasoning
• The city became an object of study
• Eiffel tower - modern materials Raises above city as a symbol of progression.
• It effected people in different ways, some were over whelmed others excited
• World Time was Agreed
• In France they knocked down the center of Paris and completely rebuilt it, Big streets, exclusive for the rich, pushed the poor out
• Social Control.
• The city Became relevant for the study of art.
• Collaborative art. Paintings became about the experiences of the poor.
• Physcologoy Kicks off - people thought the change would send people mad.
• Monet - Dis-functional Family
• The rich started to parade themselves about.
• Modernism Changed people
• Absinthe Painter - people started to drown their sorrows.
• Photography changed paintings, - Cropped paintings.
• Kaiserponarama - people were wiling to pay to go look at photos rather than going to look for free - technology becomes a fetish. 
• Technology changed the world but not always for the best
• Max Nordau
• Cinema! - Lumiere Brothers
• Modernist art is always anti-historic = modern is better
• Let materials speak for themselves 
• Sans serif fonts
• Modernity 1750 - 1960