Reasons For Futurism

Superior Essays
Robert E. Kelsey Jr.
Doc. Gregory Caicco
ART1030 P01
11/6/2017
Style Guide for Futurism and Purism.
Futurism
In a contemporaneous era of the early 1900’s with modernistic art movements, “Futurism” redefined a well social-political agenda. This inauguration was named by the “charismatic Italian poet as well playwriter Filippo Tommaso Marinetti” (1876-1944). 1909 was the creation “Futurism” movement, but soon encompassed the visual arts and cinemas, music and architecture.
“Futurists” were exponents of war to remove the stagnated past with aflame in the destruction of museums and similar repositories were accumulative culture “mausoleums”. The “futurist” called for radical innovations with-in the arts, where they were interested in the “Futurists”
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To paint a human figure, you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere. We declare that all forms of imitation must be idolize, all forms of originality glorified that all subjects previously used must be swept aside to express our revolving life of steel, of pride, of fever and of speed that movement and light destroy the illusion of bodies.
Purism
Architect “Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris” established a new movement sometime in the year 1918, that focused on the atemporal machines of “Purism”. This architect rejected “Cubism” in his believe it was just esoterically and decoratively a form of art. Machines is the only true, as well purist form of art when achieved with following clean and functional lines of machines.
“Fernand Ledgers” 1919 painting entitled “The city” gives the example of art created by sharpen edges of the machine which is the “Purist”
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20th century Expressionism by “Vincent van Gogh (1889) Poplars at Saint-Remy
While Examining the influences leading to “Expressionism” of the 20th century, that’s why we are looking at an oil on canvas painting by “Vincent van Gogh” his work of 20 years was the first seeds to “expressionism” took root. His inspiration came from “Impressionists with their desire to paint only from nature with capturing fleeting moments of color and light.
His results from his work was considered being “self-expressive” the uniqueness of seeing images are an attempt to capture what the world he was seeing through his eyes, but rather internal emotion type state of mind. The brush work and the use of color is what he was feeling that intensified.

Title; Feelings by Dimensions
Artist; Robert E Kelsey Jr
Date the piece was created; November 2017
Art movement and/or style: Dimensional shapes and lines
Media; Photoshop

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