This is the Modern World : Art and the City
Metropolis - A very large and densely populated industrial and commercial city.
Paris
Social, Political change between art and the city
Le Corbusier ‘ Ville Radieuse’ Plan of 1935
Utopia verses Dystopia
Industrialization, re-building after war
20th C modernism get rid of the pain of the war
Idealism - Sky scrapers, Radio towers etc
Celebration of industrialization
Manifesto of Futurist Architecture by Antonio Sant’elia, 1914 and Citta Nuova (New City) (drawing)
No curtains, no carpets, white walls, design
A house should be a machine to live in
Turned from utopia to dystopia in realization
50-60s tower blocks, damp, dirty water etc.
for example Robin Hood Gardens housing estate, London
Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927
Monumental, principle of german surrealism film making
Nosferatu
The cabinet of Dr Caligari, 1920
2026 - Made 100 years before work revolting over management
mass production just beginning
workers and thinkers
explores workers being done over by society
Thinks living the high life.
Capitalism
Paradox, New sense of freedom, convenience,
Paranoia under pining
Hard to survive the modern industrialization and financial down fall
Georges Seurat - Bathers at Asnieres
Realistic scenes from everyday life, change coming fast
Napoleon - Promise to make France great again
Big legacy to live up to
French impressionists grew up in war at odd with its self
Thomas Couture - Le Roman de la Decadence (The Roman Orgy)
Costs a lot to work with him
Manay worked under him - he was told not too paint other peoples history
Paint what is around you
Impressionists painted the city change
France - Pompidou, Pyramid, Eiffel tower full of modern architecture, public art
Change of the city, White Boulevards etc
Constant change
sense of place, geography meant nothing to its inhabitants
alienation started to be shown in paintings
for example
Caillebotte - Paris Street in Rainy Weather
Seurat - Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jalte
Degas - Absinth
Steam power made a huge impact especially the trains
Plaster of Paris
Holiday villas, new class of people
Monet - Arrival of the Normandy Train Gare Saint - Lazare
Bridges, trains were frequently revisited by artists
Planned city
London
Unplanned city, economic booms etc made it sort of similar to Paris
Artists moved away to cheap areas, Bohemian on the outskirts
Docks factory - shut down then artists work with them
Melania Basarab Gallery, London in a council flat
Hirst - Exhibition in abandoned shop
City Racing gallery - Artist squatting
Gary Hume - Dalphin V
Girl boy, boy girl
Freeze
Anya Gallaccio - Because Nothing has Changed
Tracy Emin and Sarah Lucas - 1993 - left school rented a shop instead of a studio was cheaper. they sold tacky things there
Last piece of art they made together there was The Last Night of the Shop 1993
Junk of Society
Tord Boontje designs - out of peoples rubbish undermining
stop being consumers and be creators
Sarah Lucas - Au Naturel
Eating Bananas
Council rubbish, ditch, run down grity areas
using objects from the city to represent the city
Melancholy Vibe
Michael Landy - Costermongers Stall
Flowers die every few days, inevitable cycle, things change
Gillian Wearing - Homage to the Woman with Bandaged Face who I saw Yesterday
Fleming - Man of leisure, wondering around
voyeuristic, new sensations
using people, objects, food for the creation
Japan - Tokyo
1986 - Around 90 million people in Hirrasma to Tokyo - most mountainous area
Topsy turvy Metropolis, space age technology
drunk business men not reality but how its depicted
extremes that westerners think
dedication to work (They were nicknamed Worker Bees by westerners when Japan was beating America)
also known for booze, sex and karaoke
Hikikomori - phobia - people reach a point of utopia and lock themselves away, don’t speak, mainly youngsters which cant communicate with people so shut themselves down
Azuma House - Tadao Ando
Mutations
Lack of space per person
refuge
protest against modern life,comfort
robbed of nature, feelings
Toshimaru Nakamura - sound artist
minimal means, turntable with nothing added art of denile
Piet Mondtian
Blade Runner 1982
modernity, modernism all linked with industrialization
this is post industrialization
meant to be LA but could be anywhere - things are falling apart dystopia
hyper future - breaking down
takes its lead from Metropolis
many have since taken from this fil
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