Modern Art

Modern Art includes

an element of
progress,
an element of newness
and innovations.
Modern art is
broadening of
horizons.

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The range of
innovations involve the
handling or inventions of
new techniques,
the new imagery
a new use of already
known symbols or
conjuring of new images
in new relationships.

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The germ
of an idea hinted
earlier(from past)
which is taken up
and developed by
the successive
generation.

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This leads to concepts of

Avant-garde (Forward
looking who revolt and
replace the old with new
innovations)
Thus the revolutionary
also is the leader.
Avant-garde- the advance
group in any field esp. in
visual literacy, or music etc
whose works are
characterized chiefly by
unorthodox and experimental
methods.
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This is applicable to
modern both east &
west.
Western science
and political thought, and
all other products of
Modern civilization:
food,dress,art,music,
literature will eventually
belong to all peoples,
These aspects are
sought over much of the
world.
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Modern also
signifies an
attitude, which
involves
retrospection,
with
introspection,
altogether an
attitude to the
past
reinterpretation,

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A new and fresh

sorting out of relevant
from irrelevant
the significant
from insignificant
Therefore art
reflects the social
characteristics of a
society of a given era
or epoch.

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The word modern

has its origin in the
early medieval
Modernus, meaning
that which is present,
of our time, and by
extension, new, novel
even modern
derives ultimately from
latin modo (new).
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The Age of
Revolution

Modernity can be considered as age of revolution.

Revolution of two kinds
1. Industrial Revolution symbolized by the invention
of the steam engine and
2. Political Revolution under the banner of
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Capitalism:- an
economic system in
which investment and
ownership of the means
of production,
distribution, and
exchange of wealth is
made and maintained
chiefly by private
individuals or
corporations as
contrasted to
cooperatively or state
owned means of wealth.
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The modern era clearly began

when people acquired
modern consciousness.
Around 1900 men &
women in the western world
became aware that the
character of the new age in
which they were living was
defined by the machine,
which brought with it a
different sense of time and
space
as well as the promise
of a new kind of humanity and
society.
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The advances that

took place in science,
mathematics,
engineering,and
psychology during
1880-1890 laid the
foundation for the
machine age.

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The Diesel and turbine

engines, electric
motor,tire,
automobile,light
bulb,phonogram,
radio,box camera all
these were invented
before 1900, and the
airplane shortly there
after.
They forever
transformed the quality
of life and its very feel.
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19th C gave birth to two

conflicting views of modernity
that have continued to compete
with each other.
One based on scientific
and material progress, which
arose out of the Enlightenment
with its belief in reason and
freedom, and is identified with
the middle class, and a radical
alternative regarding the
bourgeoisie as Presentation
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The second of this is

particularly romantic
notion formulated by a
french writer (stendhal)
He related modernity
specifically to
Romanticism as a
reaction against
classicism.
Bourgeois:- A member of middle class, one
whose political, economic, and social opinions are
believed to be determinable mainly by concern for
property values: Communists say all capitalists
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Charles Baudelaire
gave modernity its
current meaning
Modernity is the
transitory, Fugitive,
contingent, the half of
art , of which the other
half is the eternal and
the immutable.

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Our form of beauty is the

particular element each
manifestation comes from the
emotions, and just as we have our
own particular emotions, so we
have our own idea of beauty.
Perceptively, he located the
source of that beauty in urban
existence.
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The life of out city is rich in

marvelous subjects. We are
enveloped and steeped as
though in an atmosphere of
the marvelous, but we do not
notice it. Like his fellow critic
had said that the modern
beauty is based on accepting
modern civilization as it is.
To do so, however, artists
must go against traditions and
rely on their own
imaginations,
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Throughout the 19th C. Paris

developed in to a modern
metropolis the population
had exploded doubling in the
first half of the Century
because of progressive
industrialization drew large
sections of the rural
population to the capital in
search of work.
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The poverty was to be

eradicated by a gigantic
rebuilding program.
Magnificent town houses
was laid over the cramped
and crannied city center. This
project lasted for twenty
years. Due to the real-estate
boom the art market was
expanding. The emergence
of art dealer in 19th C.is the
important factor responsible
for growth of Art Market.
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Art historians speak of modern

art as concerned primarily with

essential qualities of colour and
flatness and as reduction of
interest in subject matter.
It is generally agreed that
douard Manet is the first
modernist painter, and that
modernism in art originated in
the 1860s.
Paintings such as his Le
Djeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon
on the grass)are seen to have
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of

The invention of photography by

Daguerre and Fox Talbot in 183940 had a revolutionary effect on
art.
Soon was able to capture
momentary events as had never
before been seen by the human
eye.
Soon painting also began to
exploit what photography had to
offer but at the same time it
reacted to this new competition by
placing new emphasis on the
craft of painting and on the artistic
concept behind it.
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Theoretical reflection on
the process of artistic
creation became
important.
An impulse as an
explanation of the work
became a standard
accompaniment to
painting.
Which had been critically
important since
Neoclassicism and
Romanticism.
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Art was no longer

bound to Royalty or
patrons, but became a
commercial ware on
an art market
operating under the
laws of capitalism.
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In this age,isms
began to replace each
other manifestos,
pamphlets,
journals,catalogues,
and the beginning of
professional art
criticism in the
newspapers both
accompanied and
steered the process.
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From this point

onwards, the new
discipline of art history,
working hand-in-hand
with a scholarly criticism
oriented towards stylistic
considerations.

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Modern Art Course content:

West
1.Realism
2.Impressionism
3.Post-Impressionism
4.Expressionism
5.Fauvism
6.Cubism & Futurism
7.Dadaism
8.Surrealism
9.Abstraction

India

Abstract Expressionism 1.Company school

2.Bengal Revivalism
Suprematism
3.Bombay Progressive group
Neo-plasticism

10.Pop Art & Op Art

11.Postmodernism

4.Contemporary Art

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Evaluation

1 Learning Diary
Collection of visuals,art
works, write-ups related to
the topics covered in the
class
Experience write-up
2 Assignments / Projects
3 Exams
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