The Modernism Age

Modernism has now become part of the 21st generation of living. It began with the industrial revelation with two main factors. One being the Industry and the other concerning the cities. Within the cities, modernism was taken over with involving art into architecture with museums or public sculptures etc. A new sense of seeing artwork was invented which could only be described as inexpressible. An example of modernism through art is Jackson Pollock, a drip paint artist. His artwork shows a demonstration of art can be expressed as something that doesn’t have to be detailed or perfect but can be just about colours and patterns that show emotion and messages through a mixture of drips, splashes and heavy brushstrokes. This made Jackson very popular from his unique and creative sense of style which had a tone of confusion in it. Each painting had a story to tell behind it, and even though this style of artwork was hard to figure out that’s what made his work famous. This painting named ‘ Full Fathom Five (1949) was one of his most famous forms of art: Though, artists who produce art that is too different or expressive can cause confrontation within communities such as writer and artist James Joyce, for he was banned from Ireland for his forward and shocking artwork. A particular piece for this was named ‘ Finnegan’s Wake”. Modernism is now about obsession with knowing about you. For example, what you are doing? Where you are going? etc. This is generated to be a search for ‘yourself’. It is also obsessed with physiology, example, the Pavlov’s dog which was an experiment tested by Ivan Pavlov and Jung who were both great physiologists, analysed the flow of the past into the future. Another great physiologist was Freud who believed that everything was based on sex or was somehow linked to the topic. Postmodernism is now a new form of how we live today, is has brought a sense of boundaries and discipline. It is about us, and our views and opinions on how we see things. Another topic that has been debated on has been about intertextuality and how most of the world that we see today isn’t real such as movies etc and how easy it is to copy ideas off other writers and producers. Subjectivity is an emphasis on impression and how seeing (reading or perception) takes place, rather looking at what is perceived example Big Brother. It’s all about you. Shallowness as another term following the idea that everybody is self centered to a degree that we do not care about the important things half the time and whenever we do, we delay looking into it further for another time. Finally Non-linear Narrative is an emphasis on another way of seeing the world through fragmented forms, discontinuous narratives and random seeming collages of different materials. At the end of the day, our society is run by self pleasure and self service through the community being self involved. But if people weren’t selfish once in a while then they wouldn’t have the opportunity to aim for certain goals and wouldn’t get what they want in life, so that saying, post modernism may have changed society for the better.