Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Week 3


Timeline of Movement and Eras


Scientific Revolution - 17th century

Modern - 18th century

Neo Classism - 19th century

Industrial Revolution - 20th century


Modernism is based on social and cultural events mad began in

colonial American in the 18th century.Early modern refers to several movements:

  • New typography
  • Bauhaus
  • Constructivsm
  • Dada (means nonsense and ready mades)
  • Futurism

And the one thing they had in common was experimentation.



Though the number of middle class, they created another revolution, "The Philosophical Revolution" and during that time "The Enlightment" began and Napolean began to build an empire. During 1815, he was removed from having p

ower and by the 19th century, art marked a new movement, Neo Classism. Neo classims meant new classism and by the 1960's it became a war cry. It again came our 400 years later. After that, in the 20th century, the era of Industrial Revolution began.


The Industrial Revolution followed the scientific Revolution. During this movement, middle class was born out of it and they were able to arise above the peasant class. This business went unchecked until James Morris.The middle class had social and political power.


Ziegest (something important in time) went to Germany and out came the Bauhaus. Bauhaus was essentially about rules for design meaning less was more. The Bauhaus was a very big school and through this Constructivism emerged. Constructivsm was Russian based and used Bauhaus for political reasons. Propaganda. Russian constructivist absorbed Cubism and Futurism to crest a new movement which unifies communists ideology with visual form.

Minimalism also came from Bauhaus as it was about reducing things to its simplest form.


Markism came in and replaced Feudalism and was the first social theory based on Capitalism.


What is the difference between contemporary and modern?

Comtemporary means now and will continue whereas modern refers to the period that follows the modern revolution.






Cubist art had a major effect on graphic design, including Exspressionist posters of Germany.

In 1962, one form of propaganda was created by Plaskatil artist who used distinctive and eye catching colours.

Futurism became a huge influence on other art movement as its violent, revolutionary techniques were adopted by Dadaist, Constructivitis, De Stijl, Duchamp and Tzara.


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