Futurism

An ideal marriage depicts a couple who desires to find their equal. Marriage is a social construct that tells people they need to get married. People do not marry for love, because love is unrealistic, according to Marinetti anyway. Marriage is an invention of the laws the parliament sets up for people. Marriage is created and established to benefit the government; if it wasn’t for women, procreating and working hard to afford to feed their families, the government would not benefit from marriage

Cultures Influences on Art With changes in culture, come changes in art. Throughout history, artworks have been produced as an imitation of the culture and society in which they were created. The cultural frame examines the meaning of artworks in relation to the social perspective of the community from which it grows. A reflection can be seen in Manet’s realist artwork of Olympia

in order to create something new. Focusing on one specific piece, the film “Taxi Driver” (1976) by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro and Jodi Foster, is a good example of a contemporary piece that contains influences from Modern art, mainly Futurism and Social Realism. Providing a brief description of the film, Taxi Driver follows the story of Travis Bickle who lives a lonely life in New York

Photography generated a sentiment of art because it could stop time in a single frame. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” (Warhol, 1975)  was something stated in Andy Warhol’s loosely formed autobiography. A perfect example of this is the series of prints that were taken by Eadward Muybridge in the 19th century, called The Horse in Motion (Fig 9). These photographs were taken to prove that the horse fully left the ground when it ran. This displayed

The feminist movement lays claim to a history of both victorious struggle and violent controversy. As women fought for equality with men in the early twentieth century, literature was inspired by this movement. Modernist writers used their artform to provide social commentary in similar ways to realistic writers of the nineteenth century. However, modernist thought allows a much more obvious agenda to be presented through literature. Mina Loy, in “Feminist Manifesto,” and Susan Glaspell, in “Trifles

UNIT I – The Great Spanish Tragedy: History and Cultural Significance of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Dr Aaron Kahn [IF YOU HAVE CHOSEN THIS UNIT AS THE TOPIC OF YOUR COURSEWORK ESSAY, LEAVE THIS SECTION BLANK] 1. Passage Identification - Choose ONE of the following (80 words) “War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword, perish by the sword, and those who don’t take the sword perish by smelly diseases.” This passage is from the essay ‘Looking Back on The Spanish

Martians are warlike, uncultured, and unjust, which contributes to their backwardness. On the other hand, the red Martians are highly civilized because they show fairness, lawfulness, and love. (transition) Marinetti even states in the “Manifesto of Futurism” that, “Beauty exists only in the struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character.” This suits Marinetti’s own piece because of the raw, violent, and sexual imagery used to describe the machinery in the future. For example

In this essay, I will be discussing the two movements ‘Dada’ and ‘Futurism’, with reference to their conceptual contexts and representative plays, there will also be analysis to how these two movements contrast to realism/ naturalism. Links will also be made to the plays, with the use of scholarly sources to back up the argument and then coming to a final conclusion at the end of the essay. Dada was an artistic and literary movement, this arose as a reaction to World War one. Many citizens believed

Fernand léger was French painter who was profoundly impacted by cutting edge modern engineering and Cubism. He created "machine craftsmanship," a style described by fantastic robotic structures rendered in strong shades. Despite the fact that he manufactured his notoriety for being a Cubist, his style shifted extensively from decade to decade, fluctuating in the middle of figuration and deliberation and indicating impact from an extensive variety of sources. Léger worked in an assortment of media

The Machine Aesthetic Traditional Fine Arts Response to Mechanisation Marinetti addressed the “death” of traditional art in his Futurist Manifesto of 1909 when he stated “Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed.” Marinetti, among with artists of the Futurist, Vorticist and Constructivist movements of the 20th century, believed