Modernity and modernism

modernism as a term is to explain the present modern age which in our time we see the 21st century to be modern. but this can be used in many ways as i learned in this lecture.

John Ruskin was one of the first people who started to state the word modernism, he changed the way we think about the world we live in and what is meant by modern.

Paris is the 1900's were at the time of advance technology, Trottoir Roullant built the first electric moving walkway in France. this walkway is a modern aspect of our present time and became modern at that time because advance with technology is working with the way we live our lives. this introduced the word urbanization which came about when urban structures started to come about and started mixing with modern structures.

life started to change because of cites getting bigger, now starting to follow a routine to work and have pleasure which made the term modernism come into play.

What is modernism?

A way to improve something many times to make it look modern, like an update to a website to material design.

Colouring started to progress the way modern things started to look like, there are many building that stand out because of their colours which is the whole movement with where art was going to be a more modern aspect as to how things look in the modern time. along side colours, science to understand how light works with colours (an example is placing rgb together to make white).

Paintings started to start to compose like photography at that time and now has become modern in terms of looking at in the way a photographer looked at taking pictures, such as making sure that the rule of thirds apply to make things look interesting and balanced in a painting.

In the modern age we are reliant on technology, without technology i would not be able to write this but this shows that its come to a point where technology is taking over our lives. for example many people nowadays have a smart phone and without it we wont be able to contact people or entertain ourselves which is something we need and hard to grasp that before phones it used to be letters which took a long time to receive in other countries.

New technology gives us new ways of doing things such as taking pictures from high up. before technology came into play as to how we view scenery around the world we now see it in a more beautiful way. we also are able to take time-laps and be able to see what happens in a day recording in 1 hour which is outstanding.