The Age Of Speed = fast - not sold on safety but on speed - car fulfilled a desire need to go fast
Martinetti wrote “Futurist Manifesto” - art statements that glorified what they want to do - vehicles are “snorting beasts” - love danger, revolt and audacity, splendor of the world, beauty of speed and struggle after einstein revealed studies with space and time, advances in space travel
Rosenquist’s “No Man” = traveling by car, diff experience, everywhere and nowhere train travel - train stations were built in center of city - orient into center of the city - sense of arrival, easing into the city vs. getting off a car cause everywhere and nowhere at same time cars are named to sell experiences - dominate the way we live - cities designed to accommodate cars
NEGATIVE: Robert Frank - “The Americans” - couldn’t get a publisher cause it didn’t paint America in the best light in 1950s - industries treat car accidents as statistics and don’t humanize them - people woldn’t want cars as much if they …show more content…
improvisation 28 from kandinsky applied German expressionism, Futurism, Bauhaus, and applied ideas into art
Jackson Pollock influential american painter into abstract expressionism - big paintings speaks of the expansion of the American West - imperial conquests - individualism, universality
Clement Greenberg elaborated on “kitsch” and the “easel picture” and pictorial “flatness” - strongly associated support for Abstract Expressionism, Greenberg believed in necessity of abstract art - resist intrusion of politics and commerce into
Martinetti wrote “Futurist Manifesto” - art statements that glorified what they want to do - vehicles are “snorting beasts” - love danger, revolt and audacity, splendor of the world, beauty of speed and struggle after einstein revealed studies with space and time, advances in space travel
Rosenquist’s “No Man” = traveling by car, diff experience, everywhere and nowhere train travel - train stations were built in center of city - orient into center of the city - sense of arrival, easing into the city vs. getting off a car cause everywhere and nowhere at same time cars are named to sell experiences - dominate the way we live - cities designed to accommodate cars
NEGATIVE: Robert Frank - “The Americans” - couldn’t get a publisher cause it didn’t paint America in the best light in 1950s - industries treat car accidents as statistics and don’t humanize them - people woldn’t want cars as much if they …show more content…
improvisation 28 from kandinsky applied German expressionism, Futurism, Bauhaus, and applied ideas into art
Jackson Pollock influential american painter into abstract expressionism - big paintings speaks of the expansion of the American West - imperial conquests - individualism, universality
Clement Greenberg elaborated on “kitsch” and the “easel picture” and pictorial “flatness” - strongly associated support for Abstract Expressionism, Greenberg believed in necessity of abstract art - resist intrusion of politics and commerce into