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Modernism

Modernism. 1909-1930. Modernism: Futurism. Italian poet Marinetti challenged artists to show “courage, audacity, and revolt” and to celebrate “a new beauty, the beauty of speed.”. Modernism: Futurism. Boccioni

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Modernism

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  1. Modernism 1909-1930

  2. Modernism: Futurism • Italian poet Marinetti challenged artists to show “courage, audacity, and revolt” and to celebrate “a new beauty, the beauty of speed.”

  3. Modernism: Futurism • Boccioni • Urged painters to forsake art of the past for the “miracles of contemporary life,” which he defined as railroads, ocean liners, and airplanes.

  4. Modernism: Futurism • Boccioni and Marinetti founded a movement based on speed.

  5. The City Rises by Boccioni

  6. Modernism: Futurism • The painters combined bright Fauve colors with fractured Cubist planes to express propulsion. • Boccioni tried to capture not just a freeze-frame still of one moment but rather a cinematic sensation of flux

  7. Elastic by Boccioni

  8. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Boccioni

  9. Modernism: Constructivism • Constructivists combined the broken shapes of Cubists and the multiple overlapping images from Futurists. • Emphasized using industrial materials: glass, metal and plastic in 3-D works.

  10. Modernism: Constructivism • Focused on geometric art reflecting modern technology • Art should be the engine for social purpose and change

  11. Model for the Monument for the 3rd International by Tatlin

  12. Propaganda Poster by Rodchenko

  13. Modernism: Precisionism • Precisionists straddled the borderline between representation and abstraction. • Simplified forms to an extreme, often very geometric.

  14. Incense of a New Church by Demuth

  15. Modernism: Precisionism • Georgia O’Keefe • Best known for her huge paintings of single flowers like irises and calla lilies. • O’Keefe evoked nature without explicitly describing it and approached the brink of abstraction.

  16. Poppies by O’Keefe

  17. Red Canna by O’Keefe

  18. Cow Skull and Two Calico Roses by O’Keefe

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