futurism

Art History 2UST CFAD

Asst. Prof. G. Malihan

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The futurists, a group of Italian artists working between 1909 and 1916, shared Fernand Léger's enthusiasm for technology, but pushed it even further.

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Filippo Marinetti's first manifesto of futurism appeared in 1909 , until the end of World War I.

Futurists embraced all that glorified new technology and mechanization and decried anything that had to do with tradition.

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Celebration of the machine age, glorifying war and favoring the growth of fascism.

Futurists declared a speeding automobile to be more beautiful than an ancient Greek statue.

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Painting and sculpture were especially concerned with expressing movement and the dynamics of natural and man-made forms.

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Some of these ideas, including the use of modern materials and technique, were taken up later by Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968), the cubists, and the constructivists.

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MusicLuigi Russolo(1885-1947)

Revolt1911

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Dinamismo di un treno1912

Luigi Russolo(1885-1947)

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Giacomo Balla,Abstract Speed — The Car has Passed, 1913

oil on canvas, 50.2 x 65.4 cm, Tate Gallery, London.10

Joseph Stella (American, 1877-1946), Battle of Lights, Coney

Island c. 1913-14

oil on canvas, 39 x 29 1/2 inches

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Carlo Carrà (Italian, 1881-1966) Funeral of the Anarchist Galli

1911, oil on canvas, 6 feet 6 1/4 inches x 8 feet 6 inches

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Umberto Boccioni Unique Forms of

Continuity in Space 1913, cast 1972, bronze, 117.5 x 87.6 x 36.8 cm,Tate Gallery, London.

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Henry Moore

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Marc ChagallHomage to Apollinaire1911-13

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Russian artistic and architectural movement that was first influenced by Cubism and Futurism

Generally considered to have been initiated in 1913 with the “painting reliefs”—abstract geometric constructions—of Vladimir Tatlin.

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Russian sculptors Antoine Pevsner and Naum Gabo joined Tatlin and his followers in Moscow.

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Upon publication of their jointly written Realist Manifesto in 1920 they became the spokesmen of the movement.

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It is from the manifesto that the name Constructivism was derived.

One of the directives that it contained was “to construct” art.

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aim was to construct abstract sculpture suitable for an industrialized society,

work pioneered the use of modern technology and materials such as wood, glass, plastics and steel.

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introduced to Western Europe by Antoine Pevsner in Paris, and his brother Naum Gabo in Germany.

principles of Constructivism were highly influential in twentieth century Western art, although for political reasons its influence in Russia ended by 1921.

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Female Model1910

Vladimir Tatlin

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Fishmonger1911

Model for the 3rd International Tower

1919-1920Vladimir Tatlin

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Lyubov Povova

Painterly ArchitectonicPortrait of a Philosopher

Cubist Construction25

Monde Vision spectrale 

Antoine Pevsner

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Construction dans l'espace

Antoine Pevsner

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Fresco, Fauna of the Ocean1944

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Antoine Pevsner (French, born Russia, 1886-1962) Maquette of a Monument Symbolising the Liberation of the Spirit

1952, bronze, 18 x 18 x 11 1/2 inches (4.6 x 4.6 x 29.5 cm) Tate Gallery, London.

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Model for 'Constructed Torso', 1917, reassembled 1981, cardboard, 39.5 x 29.0 x 16.0 cm, Tate Gallery, London.

Head No. 2, 1916, enlarged version 1964 Corten steel, 175.3 x 134.0 x 122.6 cm Tate Gallery, London.

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Based on the theory that color provides the basis for both form and content.

Conceived in Paris shortly before World War I by Morgan Russell  and Stanton MacDonald-Wright.

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Russell’s idea that paintings could be created based on sculptural forms interpreted two-dimensionally through a knowledge of color properties.

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Stressed emphasis on color rhythms

Employed pure colors in harmonious abstract arrangement.

Composed of abstract shapes, often concealing the submerged forms of figures

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Developed by painters Morgan Russell (American, 1886-1953) and Stanton MacDonald-Wright (American, 1890-1973), first exhibited in Paris in 191

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Cosmic Synchromy Synchromy in Blue-Violet

Morgan Russell

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Stanton MacDonald-

Wright(1890-1973)

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Oriental Synchromy

Stanton MacDonald-Wright

(1890-1973)

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Still Life wit Cyclamen and Fruit

The Jade Flute No. 2

Stanton MacDonald-Wright

(1890-1973

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Radical English art movement, led by Wyndham Lewis and named by the poet Ezra Pound in 1914.

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Lewis, EdwarWadsworth, Gaudier-Brzeska and others exhibited together in Brighton in 1913, presenting their work as and in 'The Cubist Room'.

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In 1914 they published their first polemical year-book, BLAST

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In 1915 they showed in London the Vorticist Exhibition which included several large paintings that are now lost. Essentially urban in its taste for hard, clear forms,

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Expressed great impatience with all Victorianism and all revivalism and sought to out-do the Post-Impressionist and Fauve modernism

Attempted to embrace industrial dynamism as the central concern

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According to Ezra Pound, it represented "the point of maximum energy," which he saw as the essential characteristic of modern life.

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Related to Cubism and Futurism, and like those movements, its momentum was greatly depleted by World War I (1914-1919).

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Centered on hard edges and angles, as seen in Cubism, applied to powerful machinery and massive structures.

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Dancing Figures1914 

Wyndham Lewis

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Wyndham Lewis (English, 1882-1957) Planners: Happy Day, 1912-3

pen, gouache and pencil on paper50

Lawrence Atkinson (English, 1873-1931) The Lake, c. 1915-20

pen and watercolor on paper, 25.4 x 36.8 cm Tate Gallery, London

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Vorticist Landscape: Forest Scene, Lewes, Sussex

1913

Edward Wadsworth English Painter

1889-1949

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Christopher Nevinson(English Painter, 1889–

1946)

Taube1916 

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The interval before Round Ten William Roberts(British Painter, 1895-

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Vision of Ezekiel1912 David Bomberg

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Red Stone Dancer1913Femme Assise

1914   Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

(1891–1915, French sculptor56