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In this essay I will be writing about the iconic change in approach to Modernism,
Pieces of art associated with adaptation of traditions value. Although modernism is reckoned to have emerged at the end of the 19th century modernist arts can be located earlier than 1863,the year that Édouard Manet showed his painting in the Salon des Refusés in Paris.
The inception that incorporated the concepts and ideologies that developed modernism has clear links back to the Enlightenment, and even to the French Revolution of 1789 uprooted the control of the French royal family what for centuries been acknowledged with little question as the head of society to be decapitated by the public political and social conscious shift in paradigm, the awareness of that understanding of the social equilibrium and how art can effectively change that equilibrium by using experimental unconventional methods of art changing the perception of viewers ideologies of what is art is distinctly demonstrated in modernism.
Created though the period of 1860 to 1970 this ear demonstrates the change in artistic viewpoints from the traditional art created to a modern form of art work what has thrown aside the tradition way of practice for more experimental ways modernist artist tested revolutionary ways of creating art with fresh new concepts and ideologies.
The impact of the First World War and the economical uncertainty that followed behind it led to the rejection of representative art and symbolic working to transform the viewer’s perception to become approving of concept of three-dimensional misrepresentation of reality.
The painting was created near the end of the 19th Edvard Munch's is an extremely influential modernism artist Avant Garde of technique focusing ...

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...de movement however because of the unconventional methods and political opinions had a big effect on the social lives as they were depicted as someone outside the norm Bohemianism .

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“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. (”"Impressions from a ballroom, New Year's Eve in St. Cloud" also known as "The St. Cloud Manifesto" (1889)
“I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun was setting. I felt a breath of melancholy –Suddenly the sky turned blood red. I stopped, and leaned against the railing, deathly tired – Looking out across the flaming clouds that hung like blood and a sword over the blue-black fjord and town. My friends walked on – I stood there, trembling with fear. And I sensed a great, infinite scream pass through nature.”(Munch, 1892)

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