Modernity - the quality or condition of being modern: an aura of technological modernity. A modern way of thinking, working, etc.; contemporariness: Hobbes was the genius of modernity.
Modernism - modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique: a strange mix of nostalgia and modernism.
A style or movement in the arts that aims to depart significantly from classical and traditional forms. by the post-war period, modernism had become part of art history.
A movement towards modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas, especially in the Roman Catholic Church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Arguably the process of modernisation allowed modernism to develop and flourish. Western world became modern.
Pre-modernity the world was governed by, the church, monarchy/aristocracy and patriarchy.
- Modernism - early to mid 20th century movement in art, design, literature and arts in general.
- Industrial Revolution, Thomas Telford- construction of IronBridge 1789.
- The Age of Enlightenment - Dennis Diderot (First encyclopaedia 1951)
- Dawn of Modern Philosophy
- Science and Technology (understanding of human anatomy)
- Writers such as "voltaire"
- 1776 American Declaration of independence
- 1789 French Revolution
- 1804 Napoleon crowned emperor
- 1814 bourbon restoration
- 1830 July Revolution
Movement through Artists
The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray grains of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; this was received poorly by the French upper classes.
Joseph Turner Norham - Castle sunrise
Pablo Picasso
'On or about December 1910, human character changed.'
- Virginia Woolf
Modernism
Form follows function, which is best represented by the Bauhaus and technology.
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Marcel Breuer Chair
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El Lissitzky
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