Modernism: revisited

This weekend as I was checking up on my blog, and getting ready to write Tuesday's assignment I realized that I had not posted for last Thursday. I wrote it, but just forgot to post. (Incredible I know, but it is actually in my draft folder!) But now I have many more insightful ideas, so you all get to hear those instead.

While the Industrial Revolution changed many aspects of the lives of ordinary people for the better, it also managed to change them for the worse. The Industrial Revolution industrialized war, and for those that fought in World War One, a war fought with industrial weapons and Old World tactics, it made war a waking nightmare. As the war moved forward not only did hundreds of thousands of people died, but faith in science and God died right along with them. With God and science gone, Art took center stage. But not the Art of the Renaissance, Enlightenment, or even Romanticism, a whole new kind of art, one that showed the distorted world many saw all around them.

A personalization occurred. A theme of art for art's sake appeared, pushing against the Industrial revolution and all that it did to dehumanize the masses. In a word, artists of the modern age rejected all previously conceived forms and functions.



Those of the digital age, find a familiar theme in the digital progress all around them, new and exciting products and ideas appear everyday, every hour, and every minute. Conventional canvas art has been thrown aside in favor of computer generated art, fractals and computer animation, to name a few.

More than simply art though, the entire idea of the internet completely revolutionizes the way we think about everything. Take crowd sourcing as an example. In the olden days if a company wanted some mindless task done, that either had to assign some cubicle men, or outsource to another company and pay them. Now companies can outsource to the internet, for free. There the mind power of millions who are online and not doing anything else, possible some of their own workers, will do it for free, because they want to be a part of something bigger. Even harder projects can be outsourced to the internet and garage professionals can contribute for free or fee. But if your own team can not figure a problem out, why not turn to the wisdom of the masses?

Now if only I could get my homework done through crowd sourcing....