Futurism

By examining Elvira’s relationships with Irene and her daughter Marie-Anne in the context of Edelman’s critique on reproductive futurism, it becomes apparent how In a Year of 13 Moons captures the impossibility of the queer to exist within the space of the heterosexual symbolic. This reading of the film is best understood by analyzing Elvira’s final visit with her family when she abruptly arrives to their picnic. This scene occurs near the end of the film and marks a rapid escalation of…

The expression of a painter in their artworks sometimes produce a controversy. One of German painter, Otto Dix, was considered as a controversial artist in his era. Most of his works caused massive public attention since it clashed with the ideologies. He was a German soldier in World War I. He known as an Expressionist, Dadaist, and New Objectivist. In 1919, he founded Dresden Secession, a radical group that contrast to the early Expressionist which presented broad variety of styles and…

process called denitrification, where bacteria convert the nitrate to nitrogen that can be released into the atmosphere as gas. However, the scientists found a shocking result that the bacteria have only been eliminating 16% of all nitrogen pollution (Futurism). This is a matter that must be addressed, considering the percentages may drop lower over time. This oppression of nutrients has caused many complications and damage to our…

life. Starting in 1910 with the School of Arts in Kazan, Rodchenko first emerged with painting (Karginov 9). In terms of influences, Rodchenko had a diversity of movements, people and personalities alike. It was movements such as Art Nouveau and Futurism - from Russian avant-garde - that helped start his work in abstraction (Karginov 11-12). It was major figures such as Vladimir Tatlin and Kasmir Malevich that lead to his experimentations and deeper analyzation into the structure of things…

which then grew into a campaign for women who required to receive the same rights as men. Marinetti’s supremacist rendering of futurism exposed a rather misogynist organization, deeming a woman inclusive government to be detrimental to the entire male sex. Mina Loy, highly influenced and inspired by Marinetti’s prominent and influential radicalism, in regard to futurism, took his artistic approach to craft her own appeals through her written work. The funny thing about Mina Loy is that she liked…

Brutalism, an architectural movement that peaked in the 1970s, a movement that has been classified as a controversial, muscular style. Brutalism is often characterized by angular, topological forms and rough materials, usually concrete. Calder has once said: ‘Brutalist buildings derive their aesthetic not from borrowed historical motifs, but from the proud flaunting of modern construction methods’. Brutalism is raw, it shows unpretentious honesty, exposing the nature of the construction.…

Exploring comparisons and contrasts between secular futurology and Christian eschatology and secular futurology raises questions about every organization’s mission and its reason for being. Braaten (1979) says “The future in secular futurology is reached by a process of the world’s becoming. The future in Christian eschatology arrives by the coming of God’s kingdom.” For years, there have been profound dynamisms in this crossroads between the Christian eschatology and secular futurology.…

ones. Feats that are thought impossible will now be possible. But what else does science fiction tell us cloning can bring us? Futurism gives a small taste of what we have done and can do on a worldwide scale. “At the behest of the Aragon Regional Government, scientists have brought a Pyrenean ibex - an extinct species - back to life.” this is not the only thing Futurism talks about. It mentions solutions for world hunger in cloned meat, no more degenerative diseases, and even increasing the…

Artist Salvador Dali has been a major contributor to several artistic movements during the 20th century. Throughout his life, he contributed many wonderful pieces of art that belonged to the Surrealist movement, and also created works using Futurism, Dada, Impressionism and Cubism. Most notably, Dali produced the famous painting “The Persistence of Memory” and designed the Teatro-Museo Dali (or the Dali Theatre-Museum) located in Figueres, Spain (Salvador Dali Museum, Inc). Salvador Dali…

him to somewhat a different world. Boccioni was a painter for much of his short career. While on one of his trips to Paris, he was apprehended with the idea of infusing sculpture with the modernity of Futurism. In 1912 he published his Futurist Painting Sculpture: Plastic Dynamism (Pittura scultura Futuriste: Dinamismo Plastico), and then the next year (1913) he revealed his masterpiece Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.…