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MODERNISM

FUTURISM

An artistic and literary movement which rebelled against the past and decomposed the subgject to create a sense of dynamism in painting.

CUBISM

Which fragmented the subjec into geometrical and abstract shapes.

SURREALISM

Which gave importance to the world of the unconscious and used art to represent it.

It is a complex movement which started after yhe 1910 and flourished in the 20s and 30s in Europe. It included art, music, philosophy, literature, architecture.

CHANGE: - break with the tradition which came before them; - Experimentation with form and style; - attempt to represent the workings of the mind and the unconscious; - subjective perception of reality.

SOME EXAMPLES

MUSICIAN

IGOR STRAVINSKY

PAINTER

PABLO PICASSO

WRITER

VIRGINIA WOOLF

The modernist, horrified by the effects of war, were interested in recovering the unique experience of the individual and recreating his inner world. Born the modern novel.

The theories of Freud, Bergson and James led to the develompement of new techniques of writing that called "Stream of consciouness". Uninterrupted flow of thoughts, sensations, memories, feelings.

William James By consciousness, James intends the entire range of an individual's mental activity including pre-speech level of consciouness and awareness.

HENRI BERGSON For Bergson the time could not be measured according to units (hours, minutes, seconds, etc.) because it's a flow, a duration and not a series of points. Instead of perceiving times as linear, we experience mixuture of past, present and future in the same moment.

SIGMUND FREUD He's the first that study the psychoanalysis. His theories suggested that man organised the information he received from the outside word according to his own interior experience and desires, and that perception of reality was thus fundamentally subjective.

Sottoargomento

CHANGE IN STYLE: replaced by direct or indirect presentation of thought, feelings and memories. The important is the internal world of character's mind.