ART 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Giacomo Balla, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Edgar Degas
Document Summary
Italy was very backward country in terms of industrialization, it had food shortages and in light of this he artists work with this reading from the past and encourage rushing to the future in a violent way. Idea of modernism, a violent break from the past, renewed interests in the futurist now. Wrote the rst manifesto of futurism in 1910. He was also a poet and introduced a new poetry using the sounds of war machinery and a made up language. Man made illumination over powers the natural late of the moon. Compares to pointillism but uses vector patterns which communicate energy and movement. Dynamism of a dog on a leash, 1912. Appears abstract but it is the interaction of birds ying. Illustrates an interest in the cosmos and planetary change. Studied with balla in rome before going to milan. Milan was the most modern city in italy at this time. Commenting on the food shortages occurring in italy.
