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The Age of Anxiety - 21 Cards

What is Modernism?

The constant experimentation and a search for new kinds of expression

What are the answers to the Progress of Thought?

1400’s - Church

1500’s - God

1600’s - Science

1700’s - Reason

1800’s - Industry

1900’s - There are no answers

Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?

He was a secular believer who created the idea of Nihilism

What is Nihilism?

The Idea that Life is meaningless and that you can only find your identity through self-realization

What is Existentialism?

A philosophy that life is meaningless and that you have to create your own meaning as a person

Who were the creators of Existentialism?

Jean-Paul Sartre

Simone de Beauvoir

Albert Camus

Who was Sigmund Freud and what did he do?

He was a philosopher who created the idea of the struggles between the subconscious and the conscious (Psychoanalysis)

Who was a huge Quantum Mechanic?

Max Planck

What year did Einstein’s Theory of Relativity become official?

1915

What did Marie and Pierre Curie discover?

Radioactivity

Who wrote Metamorphosis?

Frank Kafka

What did James Joyce write?

Ulysses; a very confusing and unpractical book

What ballet did Igor Stravinsky create?

The Rite of Spring

Who created the 12-tone harmony technique?

Arnold Schoenberg

What did Impressionism include as an art form?

Very fuzzy and colorful

What were the main characteristics of Post-Impressionism?

Vibrant Colors

Visible Brush Strokes

What is the main idea of Cubism?

Geometric Abstract Shapes

What was Dadaism?

An anti-art and anti-bourgeois movement

What did Surrealism emphasize?

The creative potential of the unconscious mind

What were the main characteristics of Modernism?

Clean, Straight lines with curved corners

What was the main idea for Bauhaus?

Functionalism and quality design for everyday things