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Futurism-1909

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Futurism is an Italian Avant-Garde movement that was founded by an Italian poet by the name of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. A group of rebellious Italian writers and artists emerged, determined to celebrate industrialisation. These four Italian writers and artists believed that the machine age would result in an entirely new world. Futurism rejected the old and applied the new. One artist that was the bigger father of Futurism was Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Movement and Speed Futurism captured new things, ideas of modernity, the sensation and aesthetics of speed, movement and industrial development. Marinetti and other artists during that time had the love of speed, technology and violence. Men had the triumphant over nature. The name in Futurism explains that the movement is all about the future hence it rejects the past. A good example of how they rejected the past was explained in the Futurism Manifesto, written by Filippo Tomasso Marine

Cubism- Early Modernism

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Cubism 1907-1922 Cubism was an Avant-Garde movement Pablo Picasso was the father of Cubism. Many other artists were involved in Cubism but Picasso took care of it and continued with it and later known as the father of Cubism. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque worked for hand in hand, with Cubism and their works were almost similar. This movement was a French Art Movement that broke the Renaissance tradition of art making. The movement used non-objective(abstract) forms of painting, basically, painters did not paint the real thing that they saw. For the artists to paint in a non-objective way they used the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often using geometric structures, diagonal and straight lines. Abstraction was used profoundly in Cubism What is Abstraction?   An impractical idea, something visionary and unrealistic. -Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com/browse/abstraction What is an abstraction in ordinary terms or yet better term

The Glasgow Four

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The Glasgow four consisted of four Scotish Stylist's: Charles Rennie Mackintosh James Herbert McNair Margaret Macdonald Frances Macdonald These Scotish artists mentioned above met at Glasgow School of Art and began exploring their different approaches of art together. The formed an informal creative alliance. They were all influenced by the works of Aubrey Beardsley And Jan Toorop. The four artists created a unique style of originality and symbolic complexity. They come up with a geometric style that was geometrically controlled almost perfect and aligned, with elements of a strong rectilinear structure. Glasgow Four image:  Figure 1: Mackintosh, C, R, The Scottish Musical Review, 1897, Poster. http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/mackintosh/23.html Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the above image he used geometric symmetry. Most of his work including the Glasgow Four contained some sort of geometric structure. From the above image, it is like the image is symm

Art Nouveau

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The Art Nouveau was a distinctive art movement that carried new material, machined surfaces and abstraction. Compared to the Art and Crafts movement that rejected the norms of using the new style in its works Art Nouveau rejected the norms of using the old style in its art. Art Nouveau embraced the new (new style) by using very ornamented designs. Media such as paintings and poster design were superior in the Art Nouveau. Art Nouveau saw fine arts and arts as a means of everything working together ; therefore they narrowed the gap between art and fine art. Influences Poster production ·        Lithography and printmaking ·        Chromolithography that was introduced later in the 19 th century ·        Postal art- poster art Japonisme ·        The use of flat perspective, and flat broad flat colours that the Japanese introduced ·        The use of foreground and background patterning (ornamental) that added a reduction of pictorial depth ·        Employme