Post on 21-Dec-2015
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Futurism
• Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Antonio Sant’Elia
• Italy, Russia: 1909-1944
• Political as well as artistic movement
• Rejected past tradition in favor of moving forward to create a new era
• Focus on visual movement
Dada• Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Hugo
Ball, Jean Arp, Hannah Hoch, Man Ray• Switzerland, France, Germany; 1915-1918• “Dada is everything, Dada is nothing” • Attempt to fight absurdity in society with
absurdity; Rejection of war and academic tradition of art
• Attempts to pull Modernism out of its 19th century roots
• Earliest union of performance and visual arts
Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped
Bare by her Bachelors, Even, (the Large Glass),
Dada, France, 1915-23
Hannah Hoch, Cut with the
Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly
Cultural Epoch of Germany,
1919
Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter• Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Gabrielle
Munter, Paul Klee• Expressionism: Germany, 1908-1930s• Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) 1912-1914• Characterized by organic non-objectivity, and
pure abstraction of form• Attempt to reveal a spirituality in art, rather than
a descriptive narrative• Group organized as a collective of working
artists and published periodicals and almanacs
Suprematism and Constructivism
• Kasimir Malevich• Russia; 1915• Simpified compositions,
geometric shapes and bold primary color and non-colors
• Believed in the end of art as a representation of nature
• Vladimir Tatlin• Russia; 1913• Sympathetic to new
Bolshevik ruling party• Influence from Cubism
and Futurism• Rejected illusionistic
devices• Felt art should be
available to all classes