Art Through the Ages
This week, we were set the task of researching six art movements, highlighting two key artists within each movement. The movements I’ll be discussing in today’s post are Futurism, Dada, Feminist Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and Land/Earth Art. Futurism Futurism was an Italian art movement founded in Milan in 1909 by the Italian poet Fillippo Tommaso Maarinette when he published a Manifesto of futurism on the front page of a Paris newspaper. Fillippo Tommaso Maarinette "Manifeste du Futurisme" 1909 The futurist movement was most influential between 1909 and 1914 . It aimed to capture the energy of the modern world and liberate Italy from the weight of its oppressive past. Futurist painting emphasized speed, youth, violence and the industrial city. It expressed the idea of dynamism as it explored the energy and movement of modern life. We can see evidence of this theme when we look at some pieces of work by Umberto Boccioni ...