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This 6 page paper defines modernism and modernity and how they can be identified and separated from arts that are merely contemporary or “of the times”. The paper gives three examples of modern art, looking at architecture, graphic design and photography. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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but also the technical developments of the time and the materials available. Until recently the use of the term modern, and the associated modernism would relate to something of
that time. The term modern has been used for many centuries, it is even used by Cennino Cennini in 1437 when he describes Giotto as making painting modern (Cennini, 1933).
There is also the term modern used by many of the renaissance artists when describing their own work (Gablik, 1986). In historical terms
when looking at art and design modernism, although having once applied to anything of the contemporary time, how applies to a period between the 1860s and the 1970s (Gablik, 1986).
The term refers to the artistic ideals of this time, however, the term modernism is also used when reefing to something as being of the modern time and refers to
modern art. Modernity has a cross over, but this can be seen as positive acknowledgment of ones own time. The meaning is
to be aware of the differences between the current time and those that went before, but this does not devalue the previous times and styles. Nor does it need
to be seen as an opposition to the past, and as such it is the concept of originality that gains meaning by its contrast to the past. It is also
with noting that we cannot attribute deconstruction or amnesia to the term modernity as this cannot be defined as original, new or innovative, against something that is ignored, forgotten or
destroyed. Generally modernity will be applied to the last half century of the rime in which we live. Therefore, there is a cross over between modernism and modernity however we
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