The modern condition of the early twentieth century was felt across Europe, with more artists wanting to break away from the traditional art of the 19th century producing a new art movement, expression.
The modern condition could not be experienced without a modern art to read the experience against, the sense that experience cannot be grasped until it is represented.
The three most dynamic moments of the modern are that modernization is the process of scientific and technological advances, the growing impact of machines. Modernity is the social and cultural condition of these objective changes: a form of experience, an awareness of change and the effect on the people and Modernism is cultures response to these adaptations.
There were two opposing responses to the modern condition, negative views towards the growth of population and the increasing control of human life by the machine, the loss of freedom. But also positivity for modernism allowing people to experience the new and live an exciting life.
Cubism, Expressionism and Futurism were of few aspects of the European Avant-Garde...
Harrison, G. and Wood, P (ess) (1997)
Art in Theory: 1900-1990,
Oxford, Blackwell PP125-9
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