'WE ARE THE FUTURISTS AND WILL BE HEARD'

'WHO WE ARRR!' We are the Futurist movement ! An Italian avant garde movement founded in the early 20th century - Feb 20, 1909. Our role leader or the front liner was an artist and writer by the name - Fillipo Tommaso Marienetti.

We love the rush and are pumping with the youth that indulged in the art of writing and painting, our blood rushes with love for sound, speed, technology and the idea of modernity & VIOLENCE!

WE love the industrial world ranging from everything technological like, cars, the city, aeroplanes and machinery, this idea gives my body chills and makes me want to scream for for enjoyment - this to us is euphoria!

'MOSHPIT! MOSHPIT! MOSHPIT!'

We have an obsession for movement and we are very much intrigued by this phenomena - this is also why our art is heavily influenced by viability.

The aesthetic of speed,  the complexities of technology, disrupt noise and the mechanical energy of modern, industrial world.

Its dynamic and has a rushing energy of modernity (bodies in motion)

Everything should be fast! Have movement and rush because in order to defy the norms of the past we must move forward and forth to the future, until we achieve this end-state we will not stop! Even if it means war, which we are totally up for!

War in itself is an art, we need to stop living in the past!

We Glorify the future the conventional arts - The modern arts are incapable of of capturing the essance of the new reality in something radically innovative and fresh to the people who are soo trapped by the past.

We are frustrated by the traditional norms and state of things, of having to live in history and glorifying Italy's past with museums and libraries and all that crap!

We look forward to war, Marienetti felt the only way to be closer to our dreams is to contest the system and fight, a fight that would result in a war!

At around this time WWI (world war 1) was on its horizon and felt it suited absolutely great if they went to war, because its war time. 

Our primary focus was to convince people, and our revolution was to achieve clarity and justice in the flthe arts and society

'THEY DONT WANNA HEAR US!'  When we say Italy is not great anymore we are at the bottom of the pit, we are nothing and we forever be nothing if we keep living through our past! That's why we stain the past and wish it not be anymore! 

Italy was not hearing us, they reject the machine age and don't recognise our motives, saying what we do is outlandish and will result in an entirely new world order and even a renewed/different state of consciousness

Our whole motive is influenced by politics and war - we go down in history as one of the most politicised art movements in the 20th century.

We make politics and art one thing, whether it be in a form of written poetry or literature or a giant sculpture or a work of art like paintings and graphic designs.

We produce art that is filled with geometric angular forms, that are also repeated alot, the use of bright colours and vivid images that give an idea of vibrancy and variability, its non stop, constant flow of movement.

The political agendas we follow are said to be too strong to be translated to the officials, soo we translate it through our art to get our message across they way we want it to and have more of an intimate affect on the people receiving it.

Reference:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/wwi-dada/art-great-war/a/italian-futurism-an-introduction

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism

The Glasgow Four and Viennese Secession

The Glasgow Four and Vinesse Secession

The Glasgow Four comprised of:

Charles R. Macintosh
(7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928)
Was the leading foreman in the Glasgow style when it was developed
they paved way for other art styles like modenism and minimalism.
Architecture and painting were the forms of art that were on the rise at the time, and were beginning to be renown in Glasgow.
His influence in the arts and crafts in scottland was marginally influencial to the Glasgow style and for the fourthcomming generations as well.

He was very talented in the styles he did, which were: Architecture, painting decorative arts and design - such as poster design and textile design.

The four had inspirations like - Aubrey Beardsley and Jan Toorop - their work has a hard reflection of those artists, the way they demonstrated their work was also influenced by the European contemporary arts / which they were into.

Their style consisted of celtic imagery with motifs of lettering,  inspired by carvings from seventeenth century tombstones.




lyrical original, and symbolic complexity bold simple lines, defined flat  panes of colour

Herbert Mcnair
(December 23, 1868 – April 22, 1955)

Was an artist that was born in Scotland - he was a Designer of many styles such as: making furniture, designing illustrations in books and designing posters.
Herbert was a teacher who a had major contribution to the Glasgow style in the 19th century
in fact one of the founders, with Charles R. Macintosh and the two MacDonald sisters.

Herbert was influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement and European movements such as Art Nouveau and symbolism


Glasgow Siters

Margret McDonald

Frances McDonald

Were the artists that were renown in the


Viennese Secession

(Formed in 1987)
This movement comprised of multiple disciplines Architect's, painters and sculptors.
There is not one style that comprises of everybody's art style - meaning
this was every individual artist putting their work out and letting people indulge in it, the movement did not mean that everybody had an artistic contribution to one anothers work, they all did their work individually and made it clear that their styles were not of the historicist / traditional art style, it was more of bridging the gap between Applied Arts and Traditional Art.

It started with a group of artists who were all I'm the the Union of Austrian Artists, but left to create a revolution in the art world, they left with a purpose to rediscover the art for the future.

They represented a protest of the younger generation against traditional art (historicism) / their main objective was to bridge the gap between traditional arts and applied arts.
To rediscover art as a whole in saying traditional art is not the only form of art there is and is taken as serious as it is.
The young

Art Nouveau - (Translated New Art)

Art Nouveau was an academic system which dominated art education from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century.

Their main ambition or goal was to see the distinction between the fine arts and applied arts being challenged.
In doing so Art Nouveau became an international style of art eventually - most of their works were accustomed as applied arts but ranged from decorative art - Jewellery, furniture, textiles and household utensils.   Architecture, Graphic art, interior design and academic art.
These many forms of applied arts fused with fine arts resulted in this being named a total art style.

Their primary goal was established and needed to be fulfilled - they helped bridge the gap between fine and applied arts.
This was basically going against tradition because in the nineteenth century. It was seen as a modern style of art, and neglected the traditions of the fine arts - but really part of the reasons why it was instilled was to give all artists of all art form a spotlight or way to survive through their distinctive art style.

Was one of the first styles to go continental and in the later stages of time - International

Lithography played a huge influence in the molding of the Art Nouveau style - this made it famous in other terms

Japanism - influenced a lot about Art Nouveau [ Japanese art ]
from woodblock printing.
In a lot of Art Nouveau arts, Japanese woodblock printing was evident in their works, and also artists confessed in saying Japanese style of art influenced their work


Hokusai - Wave

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Hokusai - The Wave

It demonstrated organic forms to its full extent making it seamlessly have flow within the artworks crested - they had natural and clear rainy images, which became extremely popular in Europe at the time this was happening

Their use of colour - the way they used their colours made their artworks focal point the drawing it self rather than the colours to extenuate the artwork - They mainly made their colours, flat,  saturated and used arbitrary colours.
They intentionally made colour flat and made the focal point line and patterning.

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Alfonse Mucha

Artists that influenced Art Nouveau

Alphonse Mucha

One of the pioneering artists that influenced Art Nouveau - Alphonse style of work was not just beautiful to the eye but was also at times controversial.

He worked producing Illustrations for the advertising world
Mucha was soo pivotal to the movement they even called it the New Art
He had a decorative art style that incorporated all aspects covered about Art Nouveau / He mainly used female figures and elongated hair / surrounded by natural flowing elements like Flowers.

He believed the woman's body was more organic.

Sources Consulted

The Arts and Crafts Movement

The Arts and Crafts movement's reign began in 1885 - 1900
Between these years many events happened and here we are about to explore them in depth.

How it began was, due to a reaction against the Industrial revolution - the basis of this - was because of the development of the steam engine by James Watt in 1765 - which led to the beginning of the mechanization of industry, architecture  and transportation - this whole development led to unfortunate mishaps that were supposed to be good but had an extremely negative toll on  the lives of the rural working man in Britain.

The way the working man of this era lived was unfortunate, their living standards gradually worsened and deteriorated.
In Britain industrialization left people with a general mindset that their lives had changed for the worst and there was no turning back in making them have normal and financially functioning lives again.

A revolt rose from the decline of industrialization and making everything be mechanized.
And so began the Arts and Crafts movement : Which comprised skilled artists, architects, designers, craftsmen and writers.

The movement comprised of groups of skilled men in their principle - they feared industrialization was destroying the environment in which the traditional skills of the working man were undermined and took for granted.

Machines had sucked the pride, the undeniable skill and distinct design out of quality goods that were handmade before the industrialization took its toll, the craftsmen and artists were bitter because these were things that they could design way better with their hands.
They also believed that handcrafted objects were morally superior to those made by machines - this was because the objects did not come from men who wanted to do this they came from men who were slaved by the urban factories and dirty mills that those men worked in, the conditions were horrid and were no place for man.