“In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.” DoeArtMadeFactsModernContraryTraditionalContrastModernismModern Art Author:Theodor Adorno
“Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.” TogetherBeautifulModernDesignClothesDressesStructureTraditionalContrastFabricMarryingWedding DayMcqueenBeautiful ClothesBeautiful Dress Author:Sarah Burton
“On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.” ArtWholeSeemsOrderSocialTermUnitedGroupsModernInstitutionsPropertySurfaceDefinedArtisticRejectionConventionsContrastIsolatedRepresentativesImaginativeExclusiveProgrammesAvant GardeModern ArtFragmentedAntagonismManifestosSocial Institutions Author:C. D. Innes
“Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most Africans remain plugged into reality. In contrast we have become disconnected from it, reduced to compulsively consuming units, taught to worship 'economic growth' - the ultimate unreality in a finite world.” WorldRealityGrowthEconomicModernTaughtWorshipEconomicsUltimateSickContrastContinentsUnitsFiniteEconomic GrowthConsumingDisconnectedUnreality Author:Dervla Murphy
“Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.” ArtPhilosophyModernMankindAncientConstructionContrastReservedSpecialistsArt Of LivingJargonModern PhilosophyAncient Philosophy Author:Pierre Hadot