Futurism Constructivism Precisionism

Picasso Head of a Woman, 1909 Cubism had an enormous effect on art in the early 1900’s. Subject matter remained quite traditional : still life, portraits, landscape. It broke from tradition by creating new ways of seeing and representing reality. Multiple viewpoints could be represented in the same work. New media like collage were also introduced.

Guitar, 1913

Futurism was an international art movement founded in Italy in The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution, and cities; they embraced the exciting new world that was then upon them rather than hypocritically enjoying the modern world’s comforts while loudly denouncing the forces that made them possible. Fearing and attacking technology has become almost second nature to many people today; the Futurist manifestos show us an alternative philosophy.

Futurism was a celebration of the machine age, glorifying war and favoring the growth of fascism. Futurist painting and sculpture were especially concerned with expressing movement and the dynamics of natural and man-made forms.paintingsculptureexpressing movement forms Giacomo Balla, Streetlight, 1909

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed and Sound,

The choice of automobile as symbol of abstract speed recalls Marinetti's notorious statement in his first Futurist manifesto, published on February 20, 1909, in Le Figaro in Paris, only a decade after the first Italian car was manufactured: "The world's splendor has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.... A roaring automobile... that seems to run on shrapnel, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace

Nike of Samothrace, 190 BC

Influence: Costas Varotsos, Athens, Greece

Umberto Boccioni, Dynamics of a Footballer, 1913

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

Giacomo Balla, A Child Runs along the Balcony 1912

Malevich,The Knife Grinder (1912)

Kazimir Malevich, 1912,

CONSTRUCTIVISM

Constructivism was one the first movements to adopt a strictly non-objective subject matter. The movement’s work was mainly geometric and precisely composed, sometimes through mathematics and measuring tools. They favored the basic shapes of squares, rectangles, circles and triangles. Constructivists used an array of materials including wood, celluloid, nylon, plexi- glass, tin, cardboard, and wire welded or glued together. Later in the development, Constructivists incorporated aluminum, electronics, and chrome. In using these forms and materials, their aim was to depict the dominance of the machine in the modern world and its triumph over nature.

Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, at a time when the revolution of 1917 had been consolidated and the new Soviet government was building a new communist society.

-to them, all art and design was a political tool. In short, Russia was their canvas, the building of the new Soviet nation an art project of gigantic scale

Vladimir Tatlin, Monument a symbol of the momentum and unlimited potenial of the Soviet Union -openwork structure of glass and iron was based on a continual spiral to denote humanity’s upward progress. -intended to be 1,300 feet tall, or 300 feet higher than the Eiffel tower -planned for the center of Moscow -since steel was scarce, it remained only a model

The Tower, which was never fully realized, was intended to act as a fully functional conference space and propaganda center for the Communist Third International, or Comintern. Its steel spiral frame was to stand at 1,300 feet, making it the tallest structure in the world at the time - taller, and more functional—and therefore more beautiful by Constructivist standards—than the Eiffel Tower. There were to be three glass units, a cube, cylinder and cone, which would have different spaces for meetings, and these would rotate once per year, month, and day, respectively

Naum Gabo, Model for 'Constructed Torso', 1917

Naum Gabo, Head No. 2, 1916

Naum Gabo, Head, 1916

Constructivist art often aimed to demonstrate how materials behaved - to ask, for instance, what different properties had materials such as wood, glass, and metal. The form an artwork would take would be dictated by its materials (not the other way around, as is the case in traditional art forms, in which the artist 'transforms' base materials into something very different and beautiful). Constructivists were to be constructors of a new society - cultural workers on par with scientists in their search for solutions to modern problems.

Antoine Pevsner, Maquette of a Monument Symbolising the Liberation of the Spirit, 1952,

Pevsner, developable column, 1942

Graphic Design El Lissitsky

Books, Alexander Rodchenko

Shepard Fairey Arm Yourself with a Slouchy Bag, 2009 Influences….

Shepard Fairey Bags for Saks, 2009

Mannie Garcia Shepard Fairey

Precisionism - urban scenes -Amercian movement -inspired by Cubism Charles DeMuth

Precisionism (also known as Cubist Realism) is a style of representation in which an object is rendered realistically, but with an emphasis on its geometrical form. An important development in American Modernism, it was inspired by the development of Cubism in Europe. Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth are most closely associated with Precisionism. The urban works of Georgia O'Keeffe are also highly typical of this style. Dealing as it did with pure form more than with narrative or subject matter, Precisionism gradually evolved towards Abstraction, and faded away as an important influence.

Charles Sheeler, Pertaining to Yachts and Yachting (1922)

Charles Sheeler, Water

Charles, Sheeler, Classic Landscape (1931)

Charles Demuth, I Saw the Figure Five in Gold (1928)

Charles Demuth, Buildings, Lancaster (1930)

Charles Demuth, My Egypt (1927)

Charles Demuth, Chimney and Water Tower (1931)

Georgia O’Keefe Night, 1926

Georgia O’Keefe Manhattan 1932

Georgia O’Keefe

Calla Lillies on Pink, Georgia O'Keefe, 1928,

Georgia O’Keefe Gray Line with Black, Blue and Yellow, c. 1923

Poppy, 1927, oil on canvas

Red Canna, c. 1923, oil on canvas

Black Place No. 1, 1944, oil on canvas

Ranchos Church, 1930, oil on canvas

Pelvis I (Pelvis with Blue), 1944

Pelvis with Moon, 1943,