**This class will be taught In-Person**
Futurism was a politically charged art movement starting in the early 20th Century. It was a group of (mostly)men who looked to speed, technology, and action to create wonderful art. Unfortunately, they were also fascists, war-mongers, and misogynists who thought of war as a way to cleanse society of its past. Burn the museums! Burn the libraries! These were the mottos of Filippo Marinetti, who led the group. Not a nice bunch of folks, but if art museums were only filled with nice people, they'd be empty. Let's look at this controversial group together and see what artistic movements led to their creation.
Week by Week Outline:
Week 1; We'll look at what was going on in the art world at the time, like Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Orphism, Divisionism(think Pointillism), and how that led to the Futurist aesthetic. While the Futurists were a group of Italians, most of them were in Paris and were strongly influenced by the likes of Picasso, Braque, Léger, Gris, and others.
Week 2: We'll explore what Marinetti said in his famous Futurist Manifesto of 1909, and what he envisioned in the world of poetry, literature, theater, music, and even cooking! We'll see how a group of artists came under his spell to create this aesthetic using the artists discussed in the first week.
Week 3: We'll look primarily at the work of Carrá, Boccioni, Russolo, and Severini, but also explore other Italians in the group, and even an American who was strongly influenced by them. We'll discuss Synesthesia-the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body-and how the Futurists tried to evoke this in their work. All in all, we'll look at some great art together.
Futurism was a politically charged art movement starting in the early 20th Century. It was a group of (mostly)men who looked to speed, technology, and action to create wonderful art. Unfortunately, they were also fascists, war-mongers, and misogynists who thought of war as a way to cleanse society of its past. Burn the museums! Burn the libraries! These were the mottos of Filippo Marinetti, who led the group. Not a nice bunch of folks, but if art museums were only filled with nice people, they'd be empty. Let's look at this controversial group together and see what artistic movements led to their creation.
