Friday 9 January 2015

Futurism and vortitsum

What is futurism?
Futurism iswas an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the aeroplane and the industrial city. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere.
(Taken from Wikipedia)
Examples of artists:
Gino Severini, Luigi Russolo, Carlo CarrĂ , Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni.
Example of artwork in futurism style:
This painting was done by Gino Severini 

Gino Severini, 1912, Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, oil on canvas with sequins


What is vortitsum?
Vorticism was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century.[1] It was partly inspired by Cubism. The movement was announced in 1914 in the first issue of BLAST, which contained its manifesto and the movement's rejection of landscape and nudes in favour of a geometric style tending towards abstraction. Ultimately, it was their witnessing of unfolding human disaster in World War I that "drained these artists of their Vorticist zeal".Vorticism was based in London but was international in make-up and ambition.
(Taken from Wikipedia) 
Example of Artists:The eleven signatories of the Vorticist manifesto were:
Richard Aldington
Malcolm Arbuthnot
Lawrence Atkinson
Jessica Dismorr
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Cuthbert Hamilton
Wyndham Lewis
Ezra Pound
William Roberts
Helen Saunders
Edward Wadsworth
Example of artwork:




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