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What is Modernism, : - Coggle Diagram

- - - - idea of other time dimensions happenig in a non linear way
  - - - hannah Hoch's use of photo montage - continuing a questioning of the modern world through her use of magazine an news publication snippets
        
        dada and surrealism
        
        surrealism as a critique of realism, positivism and modern life
        
        influenced by psychoanalysis studies of the time - freud, key defelopment if scientific study of the brain
        
        often includes dream like visions and reference to scientific documentation
        
        max ernst
        
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        dada as anti-art
        
        came form an artistic reaction to the inflation of post war germany
        
        centred around political messaging, often with humour,
        
        man ray, objects of desire series,
        
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      - dada is later seen as elitist due to the anti-art approach and is targeted by the nazi government
- - - - expressionism
        
        think Edvard Munch's the scream
        
        fauvism
        
        reminiscing countyside and pre metropolis
        
        similar fascination of "primitive " living
      - artist abjectivity
        
        the artist can only portay their own experience, the passing of time and their own subonsious thought is included in that
        
        alienation of artist perspectives to the subjects in paintings
        
        kirchner
        
        despairing at modernity
        
        is the fear of the effects of indutrialisation on humanity
    - - cubism
        
        Picasso
  - - - claiming ornmaent is "Primitive" and should be abandoned for instead a focus on form.
        
        "Primitivism" as a theme that fascinated modernists
        
        gaugin's paintings of tahitian women - whilst a development of colour and simple form, are rooted in an exoticized vision of "the other"
- - - - constructivism
        
        El Lissitzky
        
        russian artistic movement used heavily within communist propaganda
      - supremitism
        
        malevich
        
        neo-plasticism
        
        mondrian
        
        Malevich's Black Square
        
        how this concept of pure form was interpreted differently in other cultures
        
        Brazil
      - futurism
        
        boccioni
        
        role in Italian nationalist movements
        
        fourth dimension
      - how this concept was rejected, in later examples of socialist realism and nazi art
        
        favouring instead symbolic realism to present an ideology
        
        soclialist realism
        
        Arkady Plastov,
        
        nazi art
        
        few examples due to its contradicting limitations
        
        Hans Schmitz-Wiedenbrück
    - - exploitative impact - western artists taking motifs from other countries and popularising them with without accrediting the inspiration
      - how modernism spread out of Europe also
        
        experimentations of form and colour and realism vs abstraction differ.
        
        liu haisu's development of the traditional Japanese art that was already abstract in perspective and lacking human form.
        
        interest in a western style of painting - nudes in particular
        
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        Gaganendranath Tagores interpretation of cubism - involving use of pattern motif
        
        use of block colour and geometric forms to present the movement and time's impact on the scene