G7+MYP2+Futurism&Movement

Key Concept: CHANGE Related Concepts: NARRATIVE / COMPOSITION Global Context: Scientific and technical innovation

Statement of Inquiry Developments in technology can manipulate artist' compositions and create new narratives.

Inquiry questions Factual— How has the technology been used in art over the past 150 years? Conceptual— In what ways can science and technology benefit the arts? Debatable— Could technology in art go too far so that it stops becoming art and becomes engineering? How do we know that difference?

Vocabulary relating to: Futurism, (eg. Dynamism, movement, speed, motion, continuous, overlapping, transparent, continuity, fade etc.) Rendering, (eg. hatching, cross‐hatching, scribble, masking etc.) Painting, (eg. Flood, fill, bleed, wet in wet, dry in wet etc.) Life drawing, (eg. Proportion, mannequin, measuring, pose, gestural etc.) Construction, (eg. Form, joining, modroc, paper mache etc.)

The Manifesto of Futurism, written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, initiated an artistic philosophy, Futurism, that was a rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry; it was also an advocation of the modernisation and cultural rejuvenation of Italy. Wikipedia Futurism

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Legacy and Influences Futurism has influenced many succeeding art movements in the 20th century. Art Deco, Dada, Constructivism, Vorticism, Cubism, and Surrealism are among the ones that are closely associated to it. Eventually, Futurism also evolved into Neo-Futurism, which an art movement that is driven by modern technology.

Famous Artworks An art gallery featuring interesting Futurism artworks will most likely seem to glorify the day’s new technologies. This is why the common subject is oftentimes automobiles. And such a collection is clearly in pure contrast with the cultural traditions preserved by a number of museums and art galleries. Even so, there are hundreds of very notable Futurism artworks on display in art galleries all over the world, made by modern artists. Some of the famous examples of Futurism artworks are Giacomo Balla’s ‘Abstract Speed + Sound’ (1913), Umberto Boccioni’s ‘The City Rises’ (1910), and Natalia Goncharova’s ‘Cyclist’ (1913).

Famous Artists The chief modern artists of futurism include Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Carlo Carra, and Luigi Russolo. However, even famed artists like Pablo Picasso and Christopher R.W. Nevinson has artworks that are closely identified with the artistic elements of Futurism. Many art galleries take pride in featuring Futurism artists, which list also includes Italian artist Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Russian painter David Burliuk, Bulgarian designer Nikolay Diulgheroff, Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, and Portuguese novelist Almada Negreiros, among others.

Umberto Boccioni Giacomo Balla Gino Severini Carlo Carrà Luigi Russolo Fernand Léger