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modernism in art takes on a very broad area, in general modernism is considered to handle implications of industrialization on mankind's soul. If we think of the advances from the 19th century, railroads and the telegraph, it of sound and the transmittal of sound from the telephone, this era spills over to the 20th century with the advances in flight and even flight from our home planet to other orbs in space. How could this be when compared to struggle for mere existence that men and women endured from time immemorial up until 1969, when man walked upon our moon? Art, ever reflective of actual life, mimics the stresses and strains, joys yet still moments of the artist's own life, in whatever era he lives in, so that it comes as no surprise that modernism nowadays displays the world of the mostly-urban, mostly-civilized man. Rural scenes remain, of course, but they are portrayed in vastly different styles than in previous ages.

Once we think of modern art, who springs to mind but Picasso, he of the jarring perspective and bright colors, shaking up the art world while he did in the early Twentieth century and throughout his endurance? Not even impressionism charged the art world so generating it ready to expand its consciousness to consider new approaches. If we think of modernism's focus upon introspection, then what artists see inside themselves should be unique, because every individual is unique. It is the artist's responsibility to himself and also to society to bring this outside in such a way as to communicate his own uniqueness. How he is doing this varies from abstract expressionism to cubism to Dadaism to performance art, installation art as well as self-art, for instance body piercing and tattooing.

modernism art - The rejection of traditional art practices alone does not make up modernism; the political spectrum should be considered as well. As an example, Dadaism evolved in neutral Switzerland about the period of the First World War, with its nationalism and colonial entanglements breeding war and confusing the people about the exact reasons for why they were at war. Dadaism called itself anti-war, anti-intellectualism and anti-bourgeois; in fact, it was pro-chaos, and in perhaps an ironic way, because the birth of the movement began during wartime and failed to last long after hostilities ceased. The advocates of the movement managed to move on to other pursuits in life after they had had their say. Dadaism may be said to have executed its purpose after which quit, a purely intellectual genre of modernism that has to have proved gratifying to people who aspire to modernism's focus on speed.

By concentrating on the 'new', modernism by necessity rejects the existing and even seems to despise it, since the concepts of modernism preclude formality as well as the old ways of painting, with brush and canvas and studio sittings. Through the use of impressionism's open air techniques, things are out in the open for all to find out the process as the piece will be made. Nothing hidden, nothing subtle, everything open, seems to be the modus operandi. Yet modernism possibly forgets that today's modern man will be obsolete in a few years approximately and will look back on this day and laugh at his perceptions and conceits; it really is one of the drawbacks of modern thought that seeks being always new and exciting.

modernism in art - Peter Dranitsin is a self taught and self representing artist. He spent my youth in the family where his mother an expert artist and his father an expert photographer.

"As a kid becoming an adult Peter took art classes and learned the fundamental concepts of drawing, painting and sculpture. Peter wants to paint and contribute all his time creating new paintings. Many people ask him what motivates him to paint - "My abstract art is spontaneous, and creating something beautiful away from something unknown is my motivation in creating new abstract paintings."