During the early twentieth century and a new emerging modern culture across Europe, there was an effort to mix elements from previous art movements in order to create new art. Paris was at the forefront of this change and the growth of Cubism kept them there.
Modernisation across Europe meant there were huge advances in technological ‘equipment’ and machines, which gathered a fast pace. It was due to the development of the car and speed of machinery that “granted a compelling vision of the modern” [Harrison, G. 1997 p.127] that lead to the development of Futurism.
However modernization is not only due to technological advances, but also social facts. A lot of changes before the rise of Futurism and the First World War had meant started to become alienated from each other, but the change of modernity saw new social associations, most importantly between different classes of people.
Cubism really marked a turning point “between the modern art of the nineteenth century and what was to become the condition of modern art in the twentieth”, [Harrison, G. 1997 p.129] particularly as they used mediums representing the world around them – such as newspaper articles, showing a new mass media audience.
Art In Theory: 1900-1990 by Harrison, G. And Wood, P. Published in 1997 by Oxford, Blackwell Page 125-129
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