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MODERNISM - Coggle Diagram
MODERNISM
FEATURES
intentional distortion of shapes
CUBISM (Picasso, Braque)
ABSTRACT PAINTING (Kandinsky)
VORTICISM (Lewis)
breaking down of limitations in space and time
emphasis on subjectivity and perception
stream of consciousness
allusive language and associations of words
an isolated moment or image to provide a true insight into the nature of things
the importance of the inconscious
reflection on urban life
international movement of the 20th century involving:
visual arts
cinema
music
Western literature
associated with the period after World War I
the horror of the war replaced the certainties with disillusionment and fragmentation
A NEW SYSTEM OF REFERENCES
influences of the past reshaped in a modern way
T.S. Eliot:
The Waste Land
inspired by buddhist sources, Metaphysical poets, Dante
James Joyce
inspired by Freud, James, Bergson, Laurence Sterne and the dissolution of the novel
expressed the desire to break with the past in favour of new fields of investigation