AART 1210 (Modernism) Essay (1 Viewer)

[winicat]

anyone else here doing/done this course?

if so, got a good definition for "modernism"??

 

[angelduck]

geez wini, after all the crap i got for psyc, u'd think u'd have realised not to ask net-nerds for help

 

[winicat]

well no one who does fine arts comes online anyways so what does it matter??

 

[Craig]

It’s a pretty hard term to define. I don't do this course but in terms of fine art perhaps you could define it as a genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break from preceding genres. Remember modernity comes simply from a change in perception which results in a new variable. I think in terms of fine art this variable would be genre. Meh, I don’t know if that’s correct though.

 

[winicat]

yeah, that's the thing, all the definitions i've got are broad/general, linked to other areas, contradictory or just plain wrong lol .. i thought i had it all sussed out and then i read too much about modernism and i've just lost it lol stupid, stupid modernism lol

 

[Craig]

hehe, some people have wasted there entire lives trying to figure how to define modernism. I would just give up and if your lecturer marks u down for ur definition, ask for a definition and see if he/she can do it. Perhaps you could just be a postmodernist and say that you can't define it as your context makes your interpretation bias.

 

[PrincessSJ]

Perhaps you could just be a postmodernist and say that you can't define it as your context makes your interpretation bias.

i like it!

 

[winicat]

i should, aye? i have that lect/tute tomorrow so hmm.... i can feel a huge debate in the air lol

 

[Emily.]

modernism has no definition

 

[evilc]

..but isn't saying that modernism has no definition defining it?

 

[Emily.]

no. its not.

 

[angelduck]

it really is emily

 

[Emily.]

i didnt say what modernism is tho, i just said what it wasnt

defining something is saying what it specifically is
i was vaguely saying what it wasnt
clear opposites

 

[winicat]

modernism has no definition