Evolution of and Towards Futurism
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DM101 Contextual StudiesFdA • Contextual Studies (Term 4.2)
1900 1920 1940
Art Nouveau
FUTURISM
Dada
Art Deco
Constructivism
Bauhaus
Surrealism
CUBISM
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France c.1908
Italy c.1909
Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque
Felippo Tommaso Marinetti
1895X-Ray
18991st wireless message sent
1901 Nobel Prize in Physics
1902 Racing Cars reach 100km/hr
1905 Voisin Brothersbuild aircraft in Paris
1909 1st personcrosses English Channelin aeroplane
1911 Italy goes to war with Turkey
1911 Revolutionin China
1913 35mmCamera invented
1914 WW1 starts
EVOLUTION OF FUTURISM
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Wilhelm Conrad RöntgenGermanyMunich University b. 1845, d. 1923
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Representations of:WW1
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Impressionism
CHARACTERISTICS:
Woman with a Parasol, Claude Monet, 1875
• visible brushstrokes
• light colors
• open composition
• emphasis on light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time)
• ordinary subject matter, and unusual visual angles
Impressionism
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Post Impressionism
An extension of Impressionism exploiting the true lack of form consisting of more experimental techniques including:
• pointillism• divisionism
The Gardener Vallier, Paul Cezanne 1906
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Post Impressionism - Pointillism technique
Techniques uses dotsinstead of broad strokes
Georges Seurat,Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, A, 1884-86
TRY THIS: http://www.epcomm.com/center/point/point.htm
The individual dotsof red, yellow and blue are sucked in through your eyes and mixed-upin your head to createa variety of shimmeringshades
A pointillistic studyof colour
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CUBISM
A style which restructuredobservable real world objectsby their Planal Form:
• simplification• distortion• emphasis
• Basic geometric shapes• A new manner of representation
Breakfast, Juan Gris, 1915
Said to be a reaction against the setformlessness of Impressionism
INFLUENCES: said to have been Tribal Art in which find manythemes adapted from African art
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1895X-Ray
18991st wireless message sent
1901 Nobel Prize in Physics
1902 Racing Cars reach 100km/hr
1905 Voisin Brothersbuild aircraft in Paris
1909 1st personcrosses English Channelin aeroplane
1911 Italy goes to war with Turkey
1911 Revolutionin China
1913 35mmCamera invented
1914 WW1 starts
FUTURISM
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A Manifesto was published(in French newspaper Le Figaro on 20 Feb 1919onto the mass public)
Fosused on: (dynamic, energetic and violent character of changing 20th Centurylife, especially city life)
Glorified the machine and the modern age and the city
Highly influential on other art movements and artists
Main artists: Boccioni, Cara, Balla and Severini
FUTURISM - THE FACTS
Literary and poetic in origin but then extended:(including poetry, literature, painting, graphics, typography, sculpture, product design, architecture, photography, cinema and performing arts)
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FUTURISM - THE STYLE
Forces of a Street, Umberto Boccioni, 1911
Complementary contrasts:• red / blue
• green / orange
• violet / yellow
The pre-requisitesfor modernpainting
Movement was referred to by light and destroyed solid bodiesleading to a representative style
Optical appearances
Scientific insights
Essence of motion / music
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A lack of concern for aesthetic innovation
Manifestos (visions of the new industrialised world)
Glorification of technology (speed, vital life)
Encouraging interaction and for people to take part in art, poetry, theatre
A brand new anarchy
FUTURISM - THEY SPOKE OF…
Beasts within the city(roaring motorcar/polluting factories)
Rejecting the static qualities of Cubism
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FUTURISMSUPERMENAnd not helpless victims of social inequality
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FUTURISM - POSSIBILITIES
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) by Maggi Hambling (b.1945)
What is special about:
- Colour- Painting technique
- Subject matter
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FUTURISM - POSSIBILITIES
Brahma
Hindu trinity of:
• Brahma - the creator
• Vishnu - the preserver
• Shiva - the destroyer
What do you notice?
The daily alternation oflight and dark is attributedto the activity of Brahma
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FUTURISM - POSSIBILITIES
Evening dress, Blancquaert, c.1927
By the 1920s, hemlines hadshortened to just below the knee
It is embroidered with tassels ofbeads and sequins that would havedanced and swirled with herevery movement
What would the dress capture?
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FUTURISM - POSSIBILITIES
Kaleidoscope, invented by Sir David Brewster, 1816
Named after the Greek words:
• Kalos (beautiful)
• Eidos (form)
• Scopos (Watcher)
BEAUTIFULFORMWATCHER