Futurism and Dada

Hannah Hoch, The Beautiful Girl, 1920

-reference to Balla's streetlight -industrialisation

walter benjamin

The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility -founding member of frankfurt school

conceptual art

art in which the idea presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product, if there is one.

Gino severini, Sea= dancer, 1914

-pointilism -cubism

photomontage

a montage constructed from photographic images.

Manifesto

-a public declaration of beliefs or principles, usually political ones -Marinetti launched Futurism in 1909 with the publication his "Futurist manifesto" on the front page of the French newspaper Le Figaro. -Marinetti called for the destruction of museums, libraries, and feminism. -Futurism quickly grew into an international movement and its participants issued additional manifestos for nearly every type of art: painting, sculpture, architecture, music, photography, cinema—even clothing.

Jean Arp, Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1917

-challenging the notions of what modern art

Giacomo Balla, Abstract speed + Sound, 1914

-cubism elements but futuristic

Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912

-influenced by time-lapse photography -renders dog feet as continuous movements -assemblage concept -urban paris--> new and futuritistic urban paris -way of cropping is a snapshot/photograpy element -creation of shadows

rayogram/photogram

-invented by man ray, where he merged his name and 'photograph' to describe his technique of taking photos -photographic prints made by placing objects and other elements on photosensitive paper and exposing it to light, without camera

Giacomo Balla, Street light, 1911

-pointilism vibes -pyramidical strucutre and how it points to the light -the light being next to the moon--> symbolic of the new age and industralisation -emphasis of technology -reference to the manifesto--> pondering the age of fturuism under lamps

Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

-shows a figure striding into the future -helmet? -became obsessed with sculpture -themes of movement -synthetized different movements into one figure -

Boccioni, Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913

-speed, machinary -challenges viewer to find the soccer player -the sequence of photography had an enormous impact -they issued manifestos when their art appeared -sticks out 3D element -encapsulates modern art as it shocks the viewer -illeginble

assemblage

A three-dimensional composition in which a collection of objects is unified in a sculptural work.

Futurism

An early-20th-century Italian art movement that glorified war as a cleansing agent and that celebrated the speed and dynamism of modern technology. It became an international movement

mechanical reproduction

Artwork was reified as a commodity because of centuries-old emphasis on "uniqueness" and "authenticity", but now mechanical reproduction meant that image-making was changing. -to quicker and cheaper ways

Dada

artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers - how technology has destroyed humankind -emphasis and reliance on chance -photomontage -using different mediums, mixing high and low art -challenging the concept of finished, cohesive artwork

Cult value vs. Exhibition value

cult value: ritual exhibition value: spectacle, value of art when exhbited

Filippo Tommasso Marinetti

founder of the futurist movement -Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the ringleader of this group, called the movement Futurism. Its members sought to capture the idea of modernity, the sensations and aesthetics of speed, movement, and industrial development.

Cubism

an early 20th-century style and movement in art, especially painting, in which perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.

readymade

an object made for another purpose, but displayed by an artist as art (bicycle wheel, urinal, hat rack) -an everyday object presented as a work of art

aura

the uniqueness and specificity of an art object

Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

urinal turned upside down and given the name R. Mutt R. Mutt was meant to be the common people. Saying that the everyday things the "important" people need are only there with the help of the common people. Meant to make people question what the real meaning of art even is.

collage

work of art put together from fragments