Paris Was Becoming The World s Hub For Art Innovators

Beginning towards the end of the nineteenth century, Paris was becoming the world’s hub for art innovators; a place that is widely regarded as the birthplace of modern art. Artists of all disciplines, from sculptors to musicians, made their way to this city to pursue their passions in a community of like-minded and passionate individuals. These artists came from all over the world, in a time before the world was made flat with commercial aviation. Once they arrived, they often found themselves in suboptimal living conditions, sometimes even lacking running water. Despite these obstacles, Montmartre, a hillside neighborhood on the north bank of Paris, managed to draw an impressive artistic crowd, and would eventually foster the birth of†¦show more content†¦This type of artistic suppression was happening all over the world in varying degrees. It drove many artists out of their homelands to places that were more accepting of their artistic expression. Although Kandinsky didn’t find himself in the company of the cubists of Montmartre, his story demonstrates the artistic atmosphere of the world at the time. Many artists were eager to find a haven where they could freely express themselves in the company of like-minded individuals, and to many of them, that place was Montmartre. Although there were certainly critics of modern artists within Paris itself, their general response to the artistic pioneers was more akin to arrogant dismissal as opposed to the outright suppression of places such as Russia. Another factor to consider is the somewhat overlooked economic theory of knowledge spillover. As described by Jane Jacobs in the 1960’s, it explains the obscure rise of particular industries in certain cities. This concept seeks to prescribe a name to the process of like-minded individuals who live together in a community sharing ideas with each other in casual conversations and various other exchanges. Some examples include the steel indu stry of Pittsburgh, the technology industry of San Francisco, and more pertinently, the art industry in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century. The theory claims that innovations arise most quickly in areas