Modernism lecture

unlike a lot of the other lectures that focus on one artistic discipline (eg. typography,photography etc) This lecture looked at incredibly broad art movement. Modernism encompassed an entire time period that contain many sub genres and affected many forms of art and design. Modernism mainly boils down to subjective change of an artist. Modernism is all about embracing the change that industrialism and technology was and can bring to society. Modernism took place in the late 19th century to the early 20th. The technologies emerging then today would be very unimpressive however then were revolutionary and were changing the way people saw the world. Modernism allowed artists to express NEW ideas in ways that before would have been disregarded as non tradition but during the modernist period were rejoiced. With industrialism and rising consumerism designers started thinking with completely new approaches. Functionality, form and geometry were key in terms of design thinking how the material works with the design. Modernism is an incredibly important period of design which incapsulates the idea that design can better the world around us.