Concetti Chiave
- Modernism emerged as an international movement centered in Paris, aiming to break from traditional forms and subjects across Western cultures.
- In literature, modernism explored characters' psyches using stream of consciousness and interior monologue, while poetry experimented with free verse and obscure symbols.
- Modernist painting, exemplified by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, emphasized color over form and depicted subjects from multiple perspectives.
- Common features of modernism include distortion of shapes, fragmented narratives, and an emphasis on subjective perception and the complexity of modern life.
- Modernism rejected elaborate aesthetics in favor of minimalism and spontaneity, often using mythical elements to contrast with contemporary themes.
Modernism
The first decades of the 20 century were a period of extraordinary originality and vitality in the history of art. Artistic activity was mainly centred in Paris. The term modernism is therefore used to refer to this powerful international movement reaching through Western cultures. Modernism expressed the desire to break with established forms and subjects. In the novel it explored the characters psyches through the stream of consciousness technique and interior monologue.
In poetry experimented with free verse, and often employed obscure symbols and fragmented images. In painting, Fauvism, which developed in France, with its stress on the supremacy of colour to the detriment of form, was a manifestation of the new interest in the primitive and the magical: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky. Picasso and George Braque painted by separating o bjects and figures into basic geometric shapes such as cubes, they broke them into semi-geometric fragments and reassembled them in order to give various points of view.All artistic forms of modernism share a number of common features:
-The intentional distortion of shapes
-The breaking down of limitations in space and time and the radical disruption of the linear flow of narrative or conventional verse
the awareness that our perception of reality is necessarily uncertain, temporary and subject to change: the emphasis was on subjectivity on how perception takes place rather than on what is perceived
-the use of allusive language and the development of the multiple association of words
-the intensity of the isolated moment or image to provide a true insight into the nature of things
-the self-conscious overturning of the conventions of bourgeois realism by such devices as the substitution of the mythical for a realistic method and -the manipulation of conscious parallels between the contemporary and antiquity
-the importance of unconscious as well as conscious life
-the need to reflect the complexity of modern urban life in artistic form
-a rejection of elaborate formal aesthetics in favour of minimalist designs and a rejection, in large part, of a formal aesthetic theories, in favour of spontaneity and discovery in creation.
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Qué caracteriza al movimiento artístico del modernismo en el siglo XX?
- ¿Cómo se manifiesta el modernismo en la pintura?
- ¿Cuáles son algunas características comunes de las formas artísticas del modernismo?
El modernismo se caracteriza por su deseo de romper con las formas y temas establecidos, explorando la psique de los personajes a través de técnicas como el flujo de conciencia y el monólogo interior, experimentando con el verso libre en poesía, y utilizando símbolos oscuros e imágenes fragmentadas.
En la pintura, el modernismo se manifiesta a través de movimientos como el Fauvismo, que enfatiza la supremacía del color sobre la forma, y el cubismo de Picasso y Braque, que descompone objetos en formas geométricas básicas para ofrecer múltiples puntos de vista.
Las formas artísticas del modernismo comparten características como la distorsión intencional de formas, la ruptura de limitaciones espaciales y temporales, el uso de un lenguaje alusivo, la intensidad de momentos aislados, y la importancia de la vida inconsciente y consciente.
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