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1900 1920 1940

Art Nouveau

FUTURISM

Dada

Art Deco

Constructivism

Bauhaus

Surrealism

CUBISM

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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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DM101 Contextual StudiesFdA • Contextual Studies (Term 4.2)

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