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Modernism - Coggle Diagram
Modernism
Aestheticism
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A reaction to the Victorian belief that art should be moral and raised questions about art:
- what is art?
- is it form or content?
- should it have a role in society?
- can only certain people appreciate it?
Wilde's ideas supported the changing traditional views of good and evil: "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book, books are well written or badly written"
this movement was based on the principle that pursuit of beauty and elevation of taste was the main aim of art and that art exists only for the beauty of its form
modernist art aimed to shock and provoke and aesthetes lived in a highly ostentatious manner wearing extravagant clothings, poses, decor etc.
the idea that any expression of feeling is bound to appear obscure to the audience, that the artist has produced it for its beauty and the meaning is only relevant to himself
Material aesthetics key elements are: Texture, Shape, Weight, Comfort, Temperature, Vibration and Sharpness.
What is it?
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every country has different outcomes but all is a response to the nature of modern life, how we perceive the world and how we relate to others
Finding common ground in different societies
- understanding or exploring something new whether that be faith, religion, science or technology
- you can choose you own course in life and your own identity
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to be modern is to be part of a continuum
- 'now' is different to 'then'
- 'modernus' meaning 'now'
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Intellectual revolution
Karl Marx
suggested all history was the result of class struggle
- the idea of capitalism and the inequality gap growing
"it is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness"
Nietzche
believed that we can not know what is true and what is not true, we can only see things from our own point of view
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Darwin
humans no longer defined by their relationship with god, but it's relationship with animal kingdom
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Sigmund Freud
The unconscious is dominated by the pleasure principle
- dreams are wish fulfilments
- the importance of interpretation of these dreams
- He postulated a cycle in which ideas are repressed, but remain in the mind, removed from consciousness yet operative, then reappear in consciousness under certain circumstances
The conscious is dominated by the reality principle
- psychoanalysis is above all an account of why desire can never be satisfied
- proposed that the human psyche could be divided into three parts: Id, ego and super-ego and this is used to create a separate sense of self
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