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Permanent revolution

Permanent revolution, disagreement with the traditions


Mariam Chedia
Ilia State University

Permanent revolution
Summary of an
essay:
As we all know, art passed very long way to creative what we have today. This is the
result of a lot of division and revolutions to destroy old traditions and make new era of
art-culture at the same time. The turning point came during the 19th century, which led
to permanent revolution. There were so many blank to fill up, so it was necessary to
change some important issues absolutely. Certainly full deconstruction had positive and
negative sides, but eventually changes directed towards progress.

Permanent revolution
Outline

I.

Introduction
Permanent revolution, disagreement with the traditions

II.

Architecture destruction
III. Transformation of paintings and sculptures
IV. Causes and Consequences
V. Conclusion

Permanent revolution
Permanent revolution, disagreement with the
traditions
Architecture destruction:
Great French Revolution marked the beginning of conflict between traditions which
would change the artists living and working conditions. It was difficult to introduce a
distinction between real masterpiece and duplicate. However, this time the revolution
undermined art from another side. The Industrial Revolution began to destroy the very
traditions of solid craftsmanship. (Gombrich, 2016, p. 499)
First of all, the results of these changes primarily affected the architecture, because
there was no any method to teach crafts. It was the time of the vast expansion of cities
in England and America that turned whole tracts of country into built-up areas, but this
time of unlimited building activity had no natural style of its own. It should be noted that
rules and artworks of pre Georgian period was refused, As too simple and inartistic.

Transformation of paintings and sculptures:


The "style" of the paintings and sculptures conditionality was less important role and it
may seem that this sector is less affected by the dissolution of tradition. However, in
reality it was not so. In some ways the artist's work as regulated as any other type of
activity. There has always been a demand for the creation of portraits on the altar;
People were buying pictures of the ceremonial halls of the hotel, ordering murals to
decorate the villas. All of these artists work has been performed according to the rules.
Of course, the artist was able to create a masterpiece or mid-level work, but his
remained a solid policy in. This stability was lost in XIX century. (Gombrich, 2016, p.
500)
In fact, many artists were opened limitless possibilities by the collapse of traditions. The
more choice it was, the most the public and the artist's vision did not coincide with each
other. Buyers want to purchase something like what they have been seen. In the past
artists easily perceived similar requirements. (Gombrich, 2016, p. 501) That time, it was
difficult to understand for society that the main purpose of art is to contact the user
without feedback it unfruitful, as Kandinsky review. (Kandinsky, 1977, p. 47) Now, when
this tradition was broken, artist and customer relations became tense. Most of the artists
were doing it because of money and it's all about the price of their dignity. If he refused
to follow the orders, he would suffer from hunger and poverty.
Thus, XIX century emerged deep resistance between artists whose temperament and

performances enabled them to quit being accepted norms and to respond to community
requirements and the painters who was proud of his loneliness.

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Causes and Consequences:
What was the cause of this revolution? Why destroyed traditions? The situation made it
hard for a lot of other reasons. For example: Industrial Revolution and the fall of
workmanship, emergence of the new middle class and Etc. Artists started to realize as
rejected, so they expressed their protest in different forms: attire, manners, their artworks and many other things. (Gombrich, 2016, p. 504)
Finally, such a sequence of phenomenon was not normal, but it seems that was
inevitable. As we told, there is no doubt that revolution provides full deconstruction of
culture and traditions of art, but we never specify all of this will effect positively or
negatively. However, history has shown progressive results of permanent revolution.

Permanent revolution
References
Gombrich. E. (2016, May) Chapter 25: Permanent Revolution. The Story of Art, 15th
edition.
PP. 499-500-501-504
Kandinsky. W. (1977, June) Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Free Dover Fine Art and Art
Instruction Catalog.
P. 47

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