I enjoyed this class today.
Well done to everyone for the final little presentations too, they were all brilliant. Well done my group and a special thanks to Eliza for such a stirring discussion/debate :)
Here are a few notes from today's class:
Revolution - A time of great change for the modern world happened at the start of the 20th century. The introduction of some impressive inventions that would revolutionise society and help shape the future to be what we know it as now.
- the automobile
- passenger air travel
- ocean liners (Titanic)
- world war 1
Art movements of this period ?
CUBISM
made famous by Braque and Picasso.
A style in which artists depicted distorted reality and made the view question what exactly it was they were looking at. Defracted and Refracted imagery and elements of composition like in a collage.
Colours were often muted so as to not add additional complexity to the painting's already radical depiction of the subject matter.
Some question Cubisms relationship with photography...
The word Cubism came from Braque's painting "House at Estaque in 1909. Braque was influenced by Cezanne (see previous post on blog) and when you study the two artists you can see this is quite apparent.
Other influences of this era came from literature, music and plays. The release of Simund Fraud's book "The Interpretation of Dreams" in 1900 caused an uprising in society, because it challenged what people already knew/believed and trusted.
Picasso - was the initiator of mixed media paintings. He added elements of real-world things like newspaper, wall paper, fabrics etc to boost his work to the viewer. This was known as Synthetic Cubism and with time became what we now know as collage.
FUTURISM
Started in Italy and rose in population around the cubists. But was a short-lived venture.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - was the founding-father of Futurism and it was the only movement introduced by a written manifesto. Marinetti (a classic Italian man) was a flamboyant and driven individual with great strong connections and wealth.
Marinetti was flaunting speed, technology, violence, politics and all things amazing. Very much an Avant-Garde expression. He wanted to bring an end to traditional art and ban previous styles, its subject matter and the artists way of thinking. No more reserved works - he encouraged radical, energetic, powerful and flamboyant art.
Futurism also incorporated the use of graphical elements such as type and lettering more than ever before and experimented with how it could be used and laid-out across the canvas to totally bend any traditional rules of reference etc.
Bragaglia - Introduced a change of perspective to photography as well as scientific photography. He and his work was constantly present during Futurism and basically created his own style know as Photo-Dinamism.
Fortunato Depero - Photographic performance started to happen to free-up the unengaging poses of days gone by. He encouraged the subject to move their body, show expression and joy to add real life to their photograph.
Vito Acconci - Experimanted with light and shadows.
Jules Marey - Was driven to capture the locomotion of movement.
Edward Muybridge - joined in on the act with everyone else and was a key influence in the birth of motion picture (film).
Of course NADAR was around in this era and did his best to add a touch of his own self to the mix, just because he could :)
Futurism expressed movement in ways that photography of the time was also able to record. So the two have strong/similar results when you study examples of this visual effect. It all fell apart soon after WW2 though.
PRESENTATION IS UP ON E-LEARN.
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