Modernist Art In Europe

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Modernist Art In Europe

Herbert Herbert’s thesis of his essay is to investigate the arrival of the
machine and modern art and its complexities. During WWI, modernist painting and
sculpture paid major attention to machinery, science and industry. Modern art
during that time has become a central factor in our culture due to its dominance
in public art, museums, media and literature. Herbert brings in background
information and stated the avant-garde of Pisarro, van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, etc.
The industrial revolution had a stronger grip on society during the 19th
century, and during this time, modern art was associated with primitive nature.
During the rise of industrial art their was a rise of landscapes and paintings
of rural everyday life. Also, the new technique and style which became the
handcraft to modern art was so avant-garde from the academic art. Modern art was
involved with cubism, futurism and vorticism. He explains that all of these arts
consisted of the importance of handcraft, creativity, individuality, and
original expression. Herbert keeps bringing in the fact the machine was the
leading sign of modernity. There was no more of a gap between handwork and the
machine. Also, that the machine became so important in modern art because it was
now a part of daily urban life, due to subways, telephones, automobiles, sewing
machines, bicycles, televisions, cinema, and more advanced photographic and
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