Introduction
Filippo Thommaso Marinetti's the foundation and Manifesto of futurism or The Futurist Manifesto provides many a view into a perspective that was not all too common in that era. A rejection of past and a praise of machinery, violence Continue Reading...
Art Movements
Cubism vs. Futurism
Futurism
Futurism was an Italian movement originated in early 20th century. It was artistic and social movement targeted to mass urban population. Futuristic was focused on transforming the mindset of society fro Continue Reading...
Italian Futurism debuted in 1909 with the emergence of the "Founding and Manifesto of Futurism which was published in the newspaper Le Figaro, written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Not only was Marinetti the individual who pushed for futurism and the Continue Reading...
Art
Futurism brashly and boldly embraced new technology, celebrating even the bellicose. In Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism," he states, "We will glorify war -- the world's only hygiene -- militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedo Continue Reading...
Marcel Duchamp took a urinal, called it "Fountain," put it in an art show and then defended his action on the grounds that as he was an artist and he said the urinal was art, then it was.
This is just the sort of thing that has given modern art a b Continue Reading...
Manifesto: A Difference between Baroque and Modern Art
The manifesto of the Baroque artist was in the work itself -- there was no need to explain it in writing as the tools of the artist were fully capable of allowing the artist to present a view t Continue Reading...
Modernism in art triumphed from the 19th century onward and in the early 20th century virtually changed the way art came to be perceived. From the Abstractionists to the Cubists to the Surrealists to the followers of Dada, the modernists continually Continue Reading...
Art is a means of expression. Both the works of the Horse Fair and the City Rises provide a beautiful landscape amidst busy, dynamic subjects. While they are opposites in terms of style, they share some similarities. These works of art are what helpe Continue Reading...
20th Century Modern Art
An Analysis of Three Works of Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Wassily Kandinsky helped open up the door to abstract art with his book
Concerning the Spiritual in Art. A lawyer by trade and a latecomer to the art world, Kandinsk Continue Reading...
These young men were not immersed in the high modernist traditions of Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot: rather, they were immersed in the experience of war and their own visceral response to the horrors they witnessed.
Thus a multifaceted, rather than Continue Reading...