Modern Era

The industrialization and the increased economical and political revolution that was spreading all over the world was one of the most significant reason for the change in the art world. As western cities grew dramatically due to migration from rural regions and relocated to urban cities because of the expanded agricultural Enterprise that were squeezing out the small property owners from their land. increasing changes in the world of science theory and social struggles, also added to exposure toward modernism. The world's new masters captured the images and simply dealing with reflection on premises of art itself. Modernism used art to call attention to art. This new critical modernist stance challenged the academies approach to traditional training. They eventually developed a culture, paving the way of modernism and the Avant-Garde in the 20Th century. The realist began to portray objects and images that until then had been deemed unworthy of depiction. Working people, laborers and other plain peasants where used models inside works of art. Even further, the realists depiction of these previously deemed unworthy scenes on a large scale and with an earnestness and seriousness reserved previously for the grandest history paintings. Viewers got a glimpse into the life of the every day such as the art Call Stone Breakers. This raised the issue of labor as a national concern and placed workers on the center stage, both symbolically and literally. Depiction of landscape, funerals in a bleak setting, and an overall intentionally simple and direct method of expression. Raising of photography as an object o art form was highly debated. This debate was prompted by an 1862 court decision that acknowledged that photography was indeed an art. After the decision was announced Nader took pictures from his balloons and campaigned tirelessly for art photography, he also advocated the use of balloons for transportation and aerial reconnaissance and produced the first aerial photographs of Paris from his balloon. The later 19Th century witnessed the rise of modernism and artistic movement or sensibility that involved a reflection on the premises of art itself. The movement established a challenge to artistic traditions and experiments into the abstract and new technology.