Editing Modernism in Art (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Understanding</span> ==
Modernism is understood through '''Abstraction''' and '''The Medium'''.

'''1. The Camera Effect''':
Why paint a tree that looks "real" when a camera can do it better in a second?
* '''Modernists''' decided that art should do what cameras '''can't''': express "Vibration" (Impressionism) or "Fear" (Expressionism).
* Art moved from being a "Window" into a different world to being a "Surface" made of paint.

'''2. Breaking the 'Viewpoint' (Cubism)''':
Picasso and Braque realized that we don't see a "Coffee Cup" from one static point. We move our heads.
* '''Cubism''' shows the "Side," the "Top," and the "Bottom" of the cup all in one flat image.
* This was the artistic version of Einstein's "Relativity"—the idea that "Truth" depends on where you are standing.

'''3. The Shock of the New (Dada)''':
After the horrors of WWI, artists felt that "Logic" had failed.
* '''Dada''' used "Absurdity" to protest. If a "Reasonable" world led to 10 million deaths, then art should be "Unreasonable."
* This led to '''Conceptual Art'''—the idea that the "Idea" is more important than the "Object."

'''"Make it New"''': The motto of Modernism (coined by Ezra Pound). To be a Modernist was to constantly "Destroy" the previous style to find something more "Authentic." This is why there were so many different "-isms" in just 100 years.
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