1. Futurism / Dada / Surrealism
Subject #5
Futurism / Dada / Surrealism

2. FUTURISM Refused traditional art forms
Wanted their art to be an expression of speed and modern technology
Tomasso Marinetti - Italian Poet, Playwright, & Professional Agitator
Talked about the new world technology
He wrote the “Manifesto of Futurism”
Futurism: Not looking into the past; celebrated the age of the machine

3. Futurism - Umberto Boccioni
Artist: Umberto Boccioni -
Young Italian Artist who joined the
Futurism movement
The City Rises -
Oil on canvas
Painting shows how “Futurist
painters adapted Cubism to create “waves of muscular energy”
The City Rises Umberto Boccioni

4. Futurism - Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space -
Sculpture
Bronze
1913
A sculpture that puts the painting
The City Rises in a 3D form
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni
1913

5. Futurist Sculpting - Constantin Brancusi
Born in a tiny peasant village in Romania
Had a skill for carving and villagers raised money to
send him to a school of crafts
Bird in Space was his way of displaying his desire for purity
Sculpture
Bronze
1928
Bird in Space
Constantin Brancusi

6. Dada
Started after a war of on the ways of conventional thinking by the Dadaists
Dada means nothing
Dada art was anarchic and humorous but also deadly serious
Dada was mainly made to frustrate and confuse audiences
Dada was considered to be worthless rubbish to be discarded

7. Dada - Marcel Duchamp Dada artist with interesting but weird artworks
Famous work - Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp
Painting
Oil on canvas
1912
Fun Fact: The Evening Star called the painting The Rude Descending a Staircase

8. Had R. Mutt written on it (a plumbing manufacturer)
Marcel Duchamp’s artwork Fountain was literally thrown out of the International Exhibition of Modern Art show
Had R. Mutt written on it (a plumbing manufacturer)
He called it a ‘ready made art’
He pretty much stated that any everyday object could be art.
Fountain
Marcel Duchamp
1917

9. Dada Juxtaposition: Unrelated objects that are taken out
of their normal context and joined together producing
a new unique object.
Artwork – Gift by Man Ray uses this idea of juxtaposition.
Gift
Man Ray
1921

10. Surrealism Many Dadaists organized under the new Surrealism movement.
Surrealism: “More real than reality” - an art of dreams and the irrational unconscious.

11. Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
Giorgio de Chirico
1914

12. Surrealism - Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was the greatest master of the style of realism
He could make bizarre images seem believable
Irrational juxtaposition - objects are of different size and scale
Meaning is too deep, even Dali doesn’t know what it is

13. The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
1931

15. Rene Magritte was another weird Surrealist!

16. The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images
Rene Magritte

19. Quiz
10 Questions

20. Question #1
What did Futurists believe?

21. Question #2
What art movement does this art work come from?

22. Question #3
What does Umberto’s The City Rises painting mean?

23. Question #4
What does Dada mean?

24. Question #5
What is the name of this painting and who is the artist?

25. Question #6
What was written on Marcel Duchamp’s artwork Fountain, and what type of art did Duchamp call it?

26. Question #7
Who is the artist and what is the title?

27. Question #8
What does Juxtaposition mean?

28. Question #9
What is the title of this art work and who is the artist?

29. Question #10
This is an example of what at movement?

30. Bonus
What do the words in this picture mean?

31. The End - Sources
Lewis, Richard, and Susan I. Lewis. The Power of Art Second Edition. 2nd ed. N.p.: Clark Baxter, n.d. Print.
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