Saturday 9 June 2012
DRaW, Modernity
What is Modernity? Modernity is an age that has wealthy people, famous battles, war and history, but back in the 1840's to 1960's their were artist, who painted this tradition of war, famous battles, history and wealthy people. Artist who refused to paint the traditions, lost the privilege of painting for the rest of their lives. In France their was a gallery called the Salon in France. Having your work put up in the salon was an achievement for artists. The Industrial age saw the beginning of the new
middle class, factory, workers and photography was invented. With the invention of photography artists
were given the chance to break with the tradition at function of painting.
As photography was invented, artists no longer
had look back at tradition and paint the wealthy, war, famous battles and
history anymore, because photography could do what artists could do, take a
photo of the traditional happenings. But
that’s where factories came in, making jobs for people, giving the poor a chance
to make money that creates the middle class. I think, if their was no change in Modernity we might still be living, ether very poor, or very wealthy. What I think Modernity is, it's a change that happen in the 1840's to 1960's, also the break away from painting traditional things like, wealthy, history, war and famous battles.
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OK James, you have identified something about modernity. I think it is important to remeber that modernity is a changing thing, but always it is future looking and always wanting to be new and of its time. The introduction of photography is important in the way you suggest, but it also provides artists with a new way to look at the world. Sometimes when you take a photograph there are things around the edges that get cut off artists start to do this in their paintings so photography also impacts on the way artists compose images. Grant
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