Futurism

I am at the Museo del Novecento, in Milan, Italy, learning about Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. This bronze sculpture was created in 1913 during the Cubism and Futurism periods. Though the trip was costly, I decided to go anyway to learn more about this extraordinary piece. The work portrays a runner in full speed; its legs facing forward, display the speed and power of the runner. The cost of traveling to the city, roundtrip, reached a little over $1,400 of airfare,…

According to Al Hirschfeld, “ Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.” Art has changed increasingly, and it is still changing. In this essay, I will list some of the art movements in detail from the following time periods: 1860-1915, 1916-1960, and 1965-1975. The first time period we are going to look at is 1860-1915. Impressionism came first. Impressionism is when artists are very expressive, and they use movement, angles of vision, and light pretty often (Wikipedia).…

artists would aim to push the medium they were using as far as they could, in order to emphasize the material itself rather than what it depicted. The movement’s founder, Kazimir Malevich, was influenced by both futurism and cubism, but most prominently he was influenced by Cubo-Futurism. Suprematism was incredibly significant in influencing the development of Constructivism and geometric abstract art, as well as modern day abstract art.…

“Criminal Madness” and the female mind are considered weaker and irrational than the male mind. Their primary purpose was to free the conscious mind from rational thinking and reason. 5) How are the characteristics of futurism shown in the works of Boccioni? The characteristics of futurism are shown in the works of Umberto Boccioni by exhibiting violent societal change and ideology of dynamism. He also derived his geometric forms that were typical of the French style and engaged his art with…

Question #2: Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll's House premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, on December 21, 1879. Considering this date in time, it is obvious that this is the type of work that fueled the avant-garde movement. Not to take anything away from Ibsen’s play, but from the eyes of the Futurists, the characters were mirrors of the audience members, and performed what was ‘expected’ of them in the current male-centric culture. The Norwegian critic Erik Bøgh, writing for newspaper Folkets…

of my Sudanese nurse… When I came up – torn, filthy, and stinking – from under the capsized car, I felt the white-hot iron of joy deliciously pass through my heart!” – Filippo Marinetti in The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism This passage from The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism poetically says that technological advances were at an all-time high in the dawn of the 20th century. This exciting time with revolutionary inventions such as the radio, the airplane, and the car hit the worldwide…

around 1910 by Futurists artists such as Filipo Marinetti, Umberto Boccionni, and Giacomo Balla. Futurism is the most important Avant- garde art movement of the 20th century. Futurism celebrated advanced technology. “Committed to the new, its members wished to destroy older forms of culture and to demonstrate the beauty of modern life- the beauty of machine, speed, violence, and change.” After Futurism, artists began creating Metaphysical paintings. This style of painting was created during the…

I believe that we are the first generation, as whole, that collectively thought about college for most of our educational career. Should I go to college? Where should I apply? What must I do or sacrifice to manifest my plans? These questions should no longer limited towards the rich, the boys, the white community, or even the most intellectually elite. I want to use my college experience to aid unlikely students in the future, specifically in science and engineering, in career-oriented programs…

Dziga Vertov’s conception of montage is defined by a borrowed reference to music called the theory of intervals. In music, an interval is the difference between two notes and can be wide or short. More than a mere parallel montage, Vertov’s montage using intervals consists in extending a filmic movement by using another shot placed in the same filmic continuity, even if this second shot has been recorded elsewhere or in another time. Like in symphonic music, with recurrent themes and patterns…

The persistence of the Mammy Despite Oprah’s massive capital accumulation and cultural influence, Oprah, representing a contemporary exposition of “the mammy”; a cultural archetype constructed in order to rationalize the morality of slavery, in other words, the servant or caterer to a white family in the slave times. In correspondence to the role of the mammy which is to serve their plantation Master’s psychological needs or make them feel comfortable in their children’s’ minds. While Oprah’s…