Influence of Design Trends in Modern Design

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“An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within usually a number of years.”

This essay outlines and defines three specifically chosen design trends that have been most influential in today’s modern designs. First of all the use of art movements in society are extremely under acknowledged and recognised.

"Design is like gravity - the force that holds it all together." - E A Whitney

The subject of ‘art movement’ is not to be mistaken for as diminutive with similar to shallow value, but quite the opposite as it can and has depicted images from our very own history. Dating back to 30,000 BC, the first ever display of art was discovered and since then numerous movements have been defined, that’s just counting up to modernism which was created around the 20th century. And with each movement discovered, certain styles would develop so with this, began the term of ‘trends’. So only by understanding the extent of impact that it has on us can we appreciate the chronicles of art and its movements. Design Trends are the movements and changes of different styles as for example Cubism, Minimalism and The Futurists; these developments are all alterations/ adaptions of further depth in detail. In stating this, different movements portray different times, moods, feelings that may be big or small depending on the size of issue, subject and/or theme.

“Also during the period of time referred to as "modern art" each movement was seen corresponding to a somewhat grandiose rethinking of all that came before it, concerning the visual arts.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art...

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...pecific art movement, Is the subject (the reason) and the movement/s prior, this is evident as we’ve seen it unfold through history like a chain reaction. For example the influence of cubism on futurism is quite obvious, as the same for Dadaism to surrealism. So in accordance, these movements like all movements have been a huge influence in modern art as their very accomplishment is the continuous development of evolving design and this enables the everlasting impact. So in conclusion the real question that weighs down our opinions is, what’s next to come?

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Works Cited

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_movement. 2011)

(http://www.arteducation.com.au/art-movements/minimalism.php. 2011) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism. 2011) (http://www.doupine.com/blog/2007/239.html. 2011)

(http://www.allbuyart.com/art-movement-futurism.asp. 2011)

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