- 'To be modern is to be new'
- 'Modern Painters' - book
- The works of modernism aren't as good as the traditional
- Favoured the Pre-Rafaelites such as William Holman Hunt
Paris 1900 was the epicentre of modernity at the time.
- life becomes regulated and industrialisation pushes people to clock in/out progressively.
- Some say the 1950s/60s was the end of the modernism period. Today we are in post-modernism or as some call late-modernity.
Upper/middle class start to express creatively. Paris begins to adapt to new architectural ideas. (In with the new and out with the old).
Haussmanisation
- large boulevards in favour of narrow streets. this made streets easier for the police. (social control)
- Manet - The Balcony(1868) art begins to reflect the views on modernity in society.
- Caillebott - Balcony
- The Flaneurs - people who embrace modernism by showing off their lavish lifestyles and clothes. They also showed off extravigant pets.
- Seurat - Isle de la Grande Jatte (1886) - expressionless people shown in modernism and its effects.
- Bather in the Asniers (1884) - social distinctions created by the modern world.
Degas 'Absinthe Drinker' - (1876) - Represents the mood of the time. Compositional technique, reflective of photography and modernism.
Manet - Bar at the Folies Bergere (1881)
Kaiserpanorama (1883)
Max Nordau Degeneration (1892) - anti-modernist showed his worry for the modern world.
Etienne - Jules Marey - Photographic gun
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