Ayshat Micheal
Professor C.
Art and Women
November 20, 2017.
Modernism
Modernism is a theoretical movement
that had an effect on cultural trends inspired by broad changes in the Western
society during the late nineteen hundreds and the early twentieth century.
Modernism is founded upon the development of industrial societies, the fast
growing cities, and the distress of World War One. Modernism deserts the idea of the constitutional
government and the church versus the states. Modernists were religiously
intolerant.
According to ,http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/modernism,
modernism
refers to the broad movement in Western arts and literature that gathered pace
from around 1850, and is characterised by a deliberate rejection of the styles
of the past; emphasising instead innovation and experimentation in forms,
materials and techniques in order to create artworks that better reflected
modern society.
Modernism was a period where establishments
and life of people that felt as though the traditional way of art, architecture,
literature, religion, philosophy, society, and sciences limited their jobs and
the new economic, social, and political environment that was forming the
industrial society. There were changes in art, religion, architecture, the
daily life, etc and these changes were made to reflect the daily activities of people
in society. Modern art deserts the old techniques of creating art; it
introduced many new movements. The names of the movements consist of fauvism, futurism, constructivism, cubism,
dada-ism, post-impressionism, expressionism, abstract expressionism, surrealism
and many more.
As anyone would imagine, it was difficult for women to fit
the standards of this movement but they were able to pave their way by
distinctive textiles for clothing (some depicted pictures or told stories) –
which later on wear used for cars as well, and fashion design. One of the most
influential women in the movement was Sonia Delaunay (1885 – 1979) Sonia
Delaunay was the ease of the movement. For Delaunay, color was a priority for
her and she used it as an expressive medium. She was interested in the dynamics
of surface design, with textiles and embroidering. She was passionate about
this and she learned how to use different colors for embroidery. Sonia Delaunay
designed curtains costume design, posters,
book covers, quilts, and creating dresses.
In
the painting, “Couverte de Berceau” by Sonia Delaunay made in 1911, depicts how
passionate she was about colors. The painting was influenced by Russian peasant
designs.
Women
in the modernism movement were concerned in depicting their lives in art. Frida
Kahlo did it and another artist that did it was Paula Moderson Becker. Chadwick states, “…marginalized
in the aesthetic and political debates swirling around modern art movements in
the early decades of the twentieth-century, many women turned to the female
body as the primary subject of a woman’s experience” (Chadwick, 282). As I have stated before women tackled the idea
of the male gaze. In the painting, “Mother and Child” by Paula Moderson Becker
made in 1907, the audience see the mother intimately lying next to her child. I
believe Becker is trying to embrace and uplift motherhood. At the time it was
seen as something that the female should do and somewhat as a weak position to
hold. The mother is seen as weak but is one of the strongest beings on earth.
Post modernism period did not focus
on the male of female gaze but it was influenced by conceptual art, collages, installation, assemblage, and
multimedia. Modernism on
the other hand is influenced by the development of the industrial society,
individual and decorative content. A post modern art piece that has inspired me
is Judy Chicago’s piece called “The Dinner Party” and it took her with her helpers
five years to create it. This piece told a story and held a lot of symbolism.
Works Cited
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art,
and Society. Thames & Hudson, 2007.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy
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