modern italian architecture 4:futurism

futurist manifesto

1st manifesto-1909-published in paris by Marinetti destroy all academies, museums, libraries-sources of antique maintenance end of wwi urban phenomenon birth of industrialism, automobile, airplane, electricity new notion of beauty: architecture, art, culinary, music new concepts of representation, centralization of image, expression of all artists and creators dynamic quality of center representation of political tension+anarchy

cubism

An artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes. Founded by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. , Artistic style that emphasizes geometric designs, using shapes such as cubes, flat planes, and spheres decomposition

carlos carra

Carrà's Futurist phase ended around the time World War I began. His work, while still using some Futurist concepts, began to deal more clearly with form and stillness, rather than motion and feeling. Carrà soon began creating still lifes in a style he, along with Giorgio de Chirico, called "metaphysical painting". Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the metaphysical phase gave way to a sombre style akin to Masaccio's. An example from this period is his 1928 Morning by the Sea. -best known="The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli" -dramatic change in composition post ww1 -representation becomes mild, loss of dynamism-denied by war and violence -return to tradition, simple italian landscape, landscape of reality essential -many artists die in war and fight -1922-traditional and religious representation-pregnancy of virgin-represents w/o tension and dynamism, refers to religion; traditional concept therefore not futurism

Giovanni Muzio

Giovanni Muzio (February 12, 1893 - May 21, 1982) was an Italian architect. Muzio was born and died in Milan and is most closely associated with the Novecento Italiano group. After service in World War I Muzio began his practice in 1920 and is responsible for the best-known work of the Novecento movement, the 1922 residential block called the Ca' Brutta ("Ugly House") on the Via Moscova in Milan. The style is a stripped-down neo-classicism, five stories on a rounded corner patterned with real and blind arches, and bands of color for each story. -reinterpretation of traditional villas as modern architecture neoclassical-stylized representation la casa brutta- the ugly house; green marble; decorated with classical motifs early expression of post modernism reinterpret and repropose historic -buildings play in classical rules and break motifs buildings that anticipate modernity -simplicity in elevation -futuristic concern disapears reference to baroque curvatureesp in plan

Giorgio de Chirico

Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978) Plane- Operatic Spaces, storng, forced perspective, often symbolic objects, strong light, reinterpretation of history into something abstract and different futurism=dynamic metaphysical painter-suspension of time and space "piazza di Italia" classical architecture, modern icons; abstraction of old buildings (porticos, columns, sculptural pieces) -traditional and rational landscapes -justaposition of technology onto traditional landscape -known vs unknown-historical italy=familiar, confident with tradition, modernity=begins with reinterpretation of history as abstraction -we must know history in order to reinterpret it "enigmatic paintings-less appealing, more conceptually expressive

Mario Sironi

Mario Sironi (May 12, 1885 - August 13, 1961) was an Italian modernist artist who was active as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer. His typically somber paintings are characterized by massive, immobile forms. -scenes of periphary niether futurist nor metaphysical synthesis between two meditation about past urban periphary in milan loss of dynamism important during fascist period 1920-1943-change in culture, social structure, concept of family=base of social structure -family=constitutional structure of italian structure-stability -landscape, technology, urban, without metaphysical(historical) and Futuristic (dynamism)

Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913, Futurism [cubist rules of breaking down for while keeping organic shapes trying to understand how we view movement]

futurism

a group movement originated in Italy in 1909. grew out of Cubism. artists of this added implied motion to the shifting planes and multiple observation points of the Cubists; they celebrated natural as well as mechanical motion and speed. Glorification of war, danger, and machine age (in keeping with martial machine spirit developing in Italy at the time). , Artistic movement established around 1909 by the Italian poet Emilio Marinetti. It rejected traditional forms so as to celebrate and incorporate into art the energy and dynamism of modern technology. simultaneoty of imagery-front and side perspective use of cubistic expression central figure fragmentation evolution of time and space-Boccioni-decomposition

representation of urbanism

industrialization, construction, production, dynamism predominately set in milano

Antonio Sant'Elia

piece: drawing for the new city of the future 1914, nothing was ever built, drew imaginary cities, airports, traffic, huge cities - futurist - believed in construction based on technology and science and for design that addressed unique demands of modern life - thought decoration was absurd and used diagonal and elliptic lines because they were thought to be more emotionally powerful than horizontals and verticals - futurist manifesto of architecture -present and future culture to diverge from institution rationality -volumetric composition -expression of dynamism -presented perspectivaly -possible compositions and scalar -electricity from water -momumentality in architecture -abstraction of new city -verticality, circulation, stairs, elevators, become iconic elements, multilayered city:transportation and circulation, mobility=new city -buildings become bridges -vagu imagery, sense of \anticipation celebration of mobility, momumental -predates industrial boom in america