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Seminar in Art History: Twentieth Century Art. III. Reaction to The Great War. 1910-1919. Futurism. Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Antonio Sant’Elia Italy, Russia: 1909-1944 Political as well as artistic movement
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Seminar in Art History: Twentieth Century Art III. Reaction to The Great War 1910-1919
Futurism • Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Antonio Sant’Elia • Italy, Russia: 1909-1944 • Political as well as artistic movement • Rejected past tradition in favor of moving forward to create a new era • Focus on visual movement
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, Italy, 1913
Dada • Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Jean Arp, Hannah Hoch, Man Ray • Switzerland, France, Germany; 1915-1918 • “Dada is everything, Dada is nothing” • Attempt to fight absurdity in society with absurdity; Rejection of war and academic tradition of art • Attempts to pull Modernism out of its 19th century roots • Earliest union of performance and visual arts
Marcel Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even, (the Large Glass), Dada, France, 1915-23
Hannah Hoch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919
Expressionism: Der Blaue Reiter • Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Gabrielle Munter, Paul Klee • Expressionism: Germany, 1908-1930s • Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) 1912-1914 • Characterized by organic non-objectivity, and pure abstraction of form • Attempt to reveal a spirituality in art, rather than a descriptive narrative • Group organized as a collective of working artists and published periodicals and almanacs
Kasimir Malevich Russia; 1915 Simpified compositions, geometric shapes and bold primary color and non-colors Believed in the end of art as a representation of nature Vladimir Tatlin Russia; 1913 Sympathetic to new Bolshevik ruling party Influence from Cubism and Futurism Rejected illusionistic devices Felt art should be available to all classes Suprematism and Constructivism
Vladimir Tatlin, Monument to the Third International, Russia, 1920