MODERNISM

Overview:

Modernism emerged from the age of the Enlightenment. During the 17th and 18th century there was a movement to emphasise the research and study of science and reason. Photography came from modernism as human progress was moving forward and ‘fixing an image’ was invented

Time period:

1860’s – 1960’s

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A combination of all the Avant-garde art movements. Modernism began with the invention of photography as people began to experiment in a new way with photography. Modernism was about people exloring and finding new ideas and work. Compared to post modernism which is more current, modernism was original and the it was more about the work being created than the artist creating it.

Artists associated:

Ansel Adams, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Margareth Bourke-white, Walker Evans, Hannah Höck, Alexander Rodchenko, Claude Cahun.

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Artists and photographers from different movements and isms used their own techniques. Pictorialists used vaseline on th elense to blur the images making them look like painting, straight and realism photographers used wide apertures and looked for shape and tone to create their images. People from the dadaism movement began making photo montages and the Russian avant-garde did double exposures.

POST-MODERNISM

Overview:

Post modernism is was born in the late half of the 20th century. it came around in the 1960’s when the world was opening up in terms people coming out as gay or other members of the LGBTQ society without fear of going to prison or less risk of being discriminated. Architecture was the first art form to use the term postmodernism.

Time period:

1960’s – 2000’s

Key characteristics/ conventions :

Using art, photography and other art forms to give messages. Barbara Kruger used advertising and slogans on her images to represent woman and in particular the female body and the struggles women go through.

Artists associated:

Barbara Kruger, Cindy sherman, Sam Taylor-Wood

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