Carlo Carra - on
futurist painting art and life.
Moreover you can find on TES Resources the individual artists quotes by Marinetti and the other Futurist artists as Carra, Severini, Boccioni under their own name - with their stories on life and
their Futurist painting art.
Not exact matches
He was mainly creating
paintings; later he explored
Futurist sculpture
art.
Also the Italian
Futurist artists in Paris - who fought very vividly against French Cubism - admired the dynamic
painting art of Robert Delaunay and his wife Sonia.
Gino Severini, quotes by the Italian
Futurist artist on his
painting art and life in Italian Futurism, and short biography facts.
Following the developments of Cubist and
Futurist painting — in which the natural world was translated into a stark pictorial language of shapes, lines, and angles — Russia was one of the primary breeding grounds of pure abstraction, with Wassily Kandinsky doing much to popularize geometric
art before gravitating to the gestural camp in later years.
«Italian Futurism, 1909 - 1944: Reconstructing the Universe» aims to examine
paintings and sculptures that have long been recognized as modernist masterpieces alongside works of architecture, design and pure public spectacle that fueled the dream of a total
Futurist art.
If you compare
art in 1815, when John Constable was
painting fields and mill ponds, and 1915, when the Italian
futurists were hailing mechanised war, you would have called modernism a step back in attitudes to the natural world.
It may seem almost absurd to even suggest that the influence of the works of the so - called French, German, and Italian «Post Impressionists,» «
Futurists,» «Cubists,» and other «ists,» as exemplified by representative examples at the Armory show, can have any immediate, or even near future effect, upon the generally strong, good and, from the conventional
art viewpoint, sane, American
painting and sculpture of today, but there is no doubt that the study of these new groupings, called «movements» in
painting and sculpture, which have so emphasized and influenced the
art of Europe today, for the past 5 years, and even the derision which they have excited, and will continue to excite, has had and will have a stimulating effect.
The show arguably influenced American
art as much or even more than the 1913 Armory Show in New York, which brought the gospel of modernism — memorably symbolized by Duchamp's cubo -
futurist painting, Nude Descending a Staircase, mocked by one critic as «an explosion in a shingle factory» — to America.
When revolutionary French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) debuted his transgressive 1912 Cubo -
Futurist painting «Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2» at the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern
Art (now known as The Armory Show) in New York, its reputation preceded it.
Carlo Carra (1881 - 1966) Italian Cubist /
Futurist and co-founder of Metaphysical
painting (Pittura Metafisica) • The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli (1911) Museum of Modern
Art, New York.
He was impressed by the strong structure of Cubist
painting, but declared that it lacked life when compared to
Futurist art.
The small to mid-sized works synthesize
art historical
painting elements from both Cubist and
Futurist movements, while also creating a dialogue with contemporary
painting construction.