Modernism basically came from the industrial revolution.
All these people in a big messy gritty built up city, began there way of thinking.
Before people were living solitary local lives, the revolution created time.
I know time has always been about, i mean working to time, to a clock, you had to be at the factory and leave the factory and finish work all at certain times, where as before in the rural lives they wouldve got up whenever they felt it was early enough to feed the cows, or they worked at their own pace and sorted everything before a deadline, so essentially the industrial revolution created time.
The impact of the revolution cant be underrated, as it brought peasants to horrible crowded living in the city for the first time. giving them reason to question the existence of god, and so modernism is born.
Jackson Paula was a famous artist, the most unusual around this time, not for what kind of art was produced, but HOW it was produced. ie. the tools and techniques.
Using basically the most common objects lying about, on a budget jackson created some moving iconic pieces of the era.
My favorite method and tool was a tricycle. Jackson basically attached to a few leaky paint cans to a tric and paddled about on a massive canvas for hours and hours, creating colourful exciting random confusion, it was incredibly post modern, after all modern art is going against all conventions and creating what you want how you want.
Final result was half a foot deep of paint representing confusion and city life. Among all this paint included anything that was lying about and got pushed or dropped in because it was in the way of the tric. this included bottle caps and toilet paper.
So among the revolution the birth of public education was created, and why is this important especially in modern art? well its extremely relevant, they educate the control. I know such a hippie statement to make, but it was, the national curriculums main point was so no big new scary ideas happened among all the peasants in this big new world of the city.
"Give me a boy for 7 years and i will give you a man"
This statement basically means, you never forget the basics. and i know from experience, i could tell you basically everything i learnt in primary school and likely use these basics in everyday life, whereas i couldnt tell you a third of the things i learnt in high school, and i likely dont use it once a week.
In this case these basics in the 7 years the national curriculum is on about, are carried through the low lasses entire life, and these basics include,listen to the boss, the teacher, the guy in charge, because anything else is dangerous. just keep your head down.
Its only recent years that say 'think out of the box' infact even today the national curriculum says stay in the box, when you get to university you may think out of the box. but of course by that stage, you are so in the box theres nothing outside the box for you, you like the box, because youve been taught to forever love this box.
The national curriculum has proven necessary for so many years, however that was for THAT industrial revolution, not this one.
Modernism is obsessed with self,
who we are, where we are going etc.
a good example of this is marx, it keeps us going forward, we have a belief questioned and a new belief born.
marxisim is the modern belief that questions other beliefs. religions that questions other religions.
like basically everything in history, religion has something to do with it.
The industrial revolution made people want to fight, fight for rights, fight of education, fight for better living, bringing them to all this me me me, self obsessed behavior.
It is important because it brought on self searching, self examination.
postmodern thinking includes things like,
-Subjectivity
a key element of post moderisim, big brother is a prime example of this, we sell our subjectivity. its all about you.
The death of the author is important to subjectivity, as its all about you. once something is written the author is dead,gone, it doesnt matter what the author MEANT to write, now its allhat is believed.
-Shallowness
all that matter is how we present ourselves, we lack depth and knowledge because we dont want to know.
-Intersexuality
a fancy term to mix, ie. mash up.
meaning its acceptable to merge others ideas into your own as long as you clearly show you are.
Pulp fiction for example, stole scenes from many movies and lacked a linear timeline.
-Non linear narrative
Internet is a prime example here, normally one thing elads to another, and we research backwards.
-Knowingness
we know we are doing something for affect.
-Minimalism
rejection of elaborate forms
and finally
-Anything goes.
and i mean anything, thus the title. its the rejection of distinction of highs and lows.
We've come to a point that we can no longer like something and get away from something, we have to reject something else.
ie. Beethoven is better than girls aloud.
postmodernism allows us all to be individuals but not, and it allows us and forces us in the same way to have everything and anything acceptable. Topshop is one of the leading stores, and yet everything in it looks like a hookers outfit (im not being mean, im using it as a point, more of my wardrope is from topshop than id like to admit)
postmodernism expects everyone to understand, topshop for example expects all of us to love their cloths and buy them because of fashion, and those not into fashion, are expected to understand that the girls are not out for odd reasons dressed like tramps, it is fashion!
but we also expect all generations to understand that and not misunderstand.
apart of post modernism allows us also not to care what other precieve as acceptable, because its all about ourselves.
Another example of 'anything goes' is a phrase that was used in a tv show recently, one girl was wearing something not to standard of the others and another said "Brittney your outfit is so 9/11" talk about a shock factor, but its also acceptable because its all about what we ourselves deem acceptable, its a world of self obsession and acceptance.
"whoever owns the factories owns the people and whoever owns the industry owns the world"
Claire
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