Futurism is an art movement which originated from Italy in the early 20th Century which based its concepts on things like speed, technology, energy and violence. There were also parallel movements in Russia and Britain, although in Britain it was mostly known as Vorticism which was slightly different and happened later, it was influenced by Futurism. Futurism was practised on almost every medium such as, painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture and gastronomy.
Futurists embraced the new and exciting world that was upon them, rather than hypocritically pretending they did not like the worlds new modern comforts while criticising them like many other people at that time. The painter and sculptor Umberto Boccioni wrote the Manifesto of Futurist Painters in 1910 in which he vowed:
“We will fight with all our might the fanatical, senseless and snobbish religion of the past, a religion encouraged by the vicious existence of museums. We rebel against that spineless worshipping of old canvases, old statues and old bric-a-brac, against everything which is filthy and worm-ridden and corroded by time. We consider the habitual contempt for everything which is young, new and burning with life to be unjust and even criminal.”[1] This was a big statement to make in that time as it was going against the majority, but in fact it opened people up to a new modern way of looking at life, rather than being stuck in the past.
Futurism artists achieved what they wanted to by working with an extreme contrast in colours and shadows, as well as using intersecting lines to show movement. “Speeding Car” by Giacomo Balla is a perfect example of a design influence...
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...tly what Futurism would have done when it first came around, as nobody had ever seen something like it before. Although Futurism was not a very long lasting art movement, it’s ideas and influence on designs are still being recognised now.
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Dillan.B (2013) “What is Futurism” can be found at: http://www.artinthepicture.com/styles/Futurism/, accessed on the 10/12/13
Figure 1: Giacomo Balla, Speeding Car, 1913, can be found at: http://totallyhistory.com/giacomo-balla-paintings/ Accessed on the 9/12/13
Figure 2: Glenn Sheffer, Worlds Fair Chicago, 1933, can be found at: http://www.radiostratosphere.com/zsite/behind-the-dial/chicago-worlds-fair.html Accessed on the 9/12/13
Figure 3: Heinz Schulz-Neudamm, Metropolis Poster, 1927, can be found at: http://beautiful-grotesque.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/visions-of-fritz-lang-i-metropolis.html Accessed on the 10/12/13
Third Impressionist exhibition in Paris, held in 1877. Currently displayed in the Art Institute of
Futurism was an Italian artistic movement that that began in 1909. It rejected the traditional forms of art that were confined to just the canvas and statutes of old. It celebrated and incorporated the energy and enthusiasm of modern technology: Filippo Marinetti created Futurism. In the launching of this movement, Marinetti took his understanding of space and time, but also commoditized the enhancement of them. This concept helped to shape modernism and the generalized concept of the future through art. He is an artist of many forms: Painting, music, plays, film, scenic design, and dance. Through these mediums, the Futuristic medium embraced industrialization and technical invention to go against Mussolini’s fascism at the time.
From the Modern Beauty? The Aesthetics of Perceptual Simultaneity exhibition of the Florida International University Frost Museum, I have chosen to study the painting Etude Golden Arrow II (translated “Study Golden Arrow II,” pictured above) by French-Canadian artist Edward Judd. Judd painted this piece (20 x 25.5 inches) in his birth country of France circa 1931 under the style known as Synchromism. The painting is a depiction of a train known as Golden Arrow speeding along the tracks, past signaling lights, and past the perspective of the viewer. The setting of the composition is a French train track beneath an early morning sky.
Library of Congress, American Memory Collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945,
Surrealism was considered a cultural movement of the time and started in the early 1920s. The aims of the Surrealists of this time seemed to follow day to day life and all they tried to show in their works were to target dream and reality. It targeted the inconsistent of the reality and dreams. They also aimed to target the element of surprise.
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violence and change. Artists who worked in traditional media such as painting and sculpture, and in an eclectic range of styles. Some people went with the movement while others opposed it. I enjoy the different types of eclectic movement in art such as the paintings, drawings and the designs. It was not until 1911 that a distinctive futurist style emerged and then it was a product of Cubist influence. Futurism was not immediately identified with a distinctive style. Futurists were fascinated by the problems of representing modern experience, and strived to have their paintings evoke all kinds of sensations and not merely those visible to the eye. Futurist art brings to mind noise, heat, and even smell of the metropolis.
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Postmodernity is said to be “a reaction against the Modern movement” (Nicol 2009) and has shown a complete disregard for many aspects of art and design that were popularized during modernity, including: legibility, the grid, and use of a clear hierarchy. Postmodernism, as an art movement, aims to create works based on an independent style. Nothing is new in postmodern art, in a sense that something always comes from something else.
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The Color Scheme by C. Y. Turner, Director of Color. " Pan American Exposition: Buffalo 1901. (http://panam1901.bfn.org/documents/turnerarticle.html). Eck, Susan. "
Raeburn, John. A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography. Chicago: University of Illinois, 2006. Print.
The Art Nouveau style and movement, at its height between 1890 and 1910, enabled a sense of freedom for both its artists and the public as a whole. It offered strikingly original ideologies and transformed both the artistic and the mundane world alike with common characteristics like curvilinear shapes and a sense of the return to the natural and to nature as well as being at the crux of a fundamental change in how artworks were mass produced. The Art Nouveau style seemed to walk between the two worlds: it was simultaneously fantastical and grounded in reality and there was no artist in the period that was better equipped to “know and see the dance of the seven veils,” (Zatlin) than Aubrey Beardsley. It is impossible to fully discuss the value
... state-controlled arts and exhibitions. Post-impressionists were keen to capture transitory events such as world wars, machines, advancements in technologies and the various patterns of the atmosphere. Futurism was an artistic movement in Italy which drew its inspiration from speed, modernity and technology. They portrayed the dynamics of the 20th century life, venerating war and the machine age. Its transformation was aided by Filippo Marinetti after publishing The Futurist Manifestation. The activities of this movement clearly fit into the descriptions of post-impressionist movements.
In contrast to modernism, which rejects history. Postmodernist retuned to the past because they believed that we shouldn’t forget about our past, especially with what happen during the Second World War. So architects believe...