Lecture One: Modernity & Modernism - An Introduction

• What we see as 'classic' now was once seen as modern.
• 'The Hierling Sheperd' by William Holman Hunt (1851) introduces a concept rather than just being a nice painting.
• Ideas were starting to develop to make the audience think.
• Industrialisation is responsible for the availability of new materials.
• Paris was seen as a central figure in the adaption of Modernism, the painting 'Paris on a Rainy Day' (1877) doesn't centralise a person but the city itself. 
• Bauhaus' form follows function ethic takes away the ornament.
• Modernist's stayed true to the materials, not masking anything.
• Modernist's started to make for mass production.
• Harry Beck's underground map is an example of a work that strips down everything to it's purest form, creating an easy to understand version of a very complicated system.