At the turn of the 20th century, a new art was being formed to be as eminent as previous traditional art. Focussing on expression, avant-garde artists created authenticity and personal experience to be drawn into their work through a natural force. Through industrialisation and urbanisation, starting in Paris it internationalised throughout Europe. Cubism, Expressionism and Futurism individually showed different aspects of the reception to the modern. The modern consists of Modernisation, the rise and industrialisation of science and technology, Modernity, the social and cultural change of lifstyles, and finally Modernism as the relationship between the experience and development.
One side of the modern age was pessimistic, seeing human life starting to be controlled by the machine through urbanisation and industrialisation. Alternatively exhilaration was taking place, Italian poet Marinetti was creating a new response to the age, by break-through Symbolism, in turn Futurism. These two responses were due to the effects of modernisation, but a third relates, to seek the cause of the modern worlds condition. Social facts and relations of class, but also capitalist modernization. The working class both ‘feared and needed’ ideologies of social classes, as a shared nation created my capitalist production, known as Socialism.
Conflict started to arise within avant-garde art, Cubism in particular was attempted to be prised into two. This itself has created more tension and conflict between view points within art, art in respect to social factors and art as a practice. Artists have both striven to reconcile as well as affirming their argument – whether to translate and embrace the modern or art must therefore transform itself.
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