Final Proyect

Final Proyect
Vanessa Acosta, Mariana Armenta & Zulema Encinas

Topics
Futurism
Futurism was an Italian art movement
of the early twentieth century that
aimed to capture in art the dynamism
and energy of the modern world.
Dadaism
A movement in art and
literature based on deliberate
irrationality and negation of
traditional artistic values
Pop art
Art based on modern popular
culture and the mass media,
especially as a critical or ironic
comment on traditional fine
art values.

Futurism
The main characteristics:
It used vibrant techniques with color compositions.
Divisionism and abstraction
Objects were dematerialized, a situation that came from
Cubism.
There was the multiplication of positions of the same
element.
There was a marked intensification of action by means of
repetition.
It tried to capture the sensation of movement.

When and where began
Futurism was launched by the Italian poet Filippo
Tommaso Marinetti in 1909. On 20 February he
published his Manifesto of Futurism on the front
page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Among
modernist movements futurism was
exceptionally vehement in its denunciation of
the past.

Artists
Carlo Carrà
Gino Severini
Yelena Guró
Giorgio morandi
Umberto Boccioni
Giacomo Balla
Aleksandra Ekster

Important names that contributed
to the movement
Chief artists associated with futurism were Giacomo
Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini. Vorticism was
essentially the British equivalent to futurism, but
Wyndham Lewis the founder of the vorticists was
deeply hostile to the futurists.

Dadaism
The main characteristics:
It emerged as a protest against the conventions of the time.
They were characterized by an attitude of mockery and
humor and were based on absurd things and on what had
no value.
They used ways of expression full of satire and irony and
used gestures to incite provocation.
The poems that emerged from dadaism were illogical or
could not be understood as they were merely a succession
of words and sounds.

When and where began
Dada was active from 1916 to roughly
1924 in Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne,
Paris, and New York. Choose and research
important aspects of one of these cities,
including information on population,
political leadership, industry, literature,
and popular culture.

Artists
Marcel Duchamp
Tristan Tzara
Jean Arp
Salvador Dalí
Max Ernst
Hugo Ball
Man Ray
Francis Picabia

Important names that contributed to the
movement
The most renowned Dada artists are Marcel Duchamp,
Francis Picabia, and Man Ray in Paris, George Grosz,
Otto Dix, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch, Max Ernst, and
Kurt Schwitters in Germany, and Tristan Tzara, Richard
Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janco and Jean Arp in Zurich.

Pop art
There was a rejection of abstract expressionism.
They tried to put art in contact with the world and with reality.
It used a figurative and at the same time realistic language to
express the different cultures and ideas of the contemporary
world.
His main themes were taken from cities, social aspects,
magazines, comics, cinema, radio and television.
It was an art that did not have any kind of critical thinking.

When and where began
Pop Art emerged as an art movement during the 1950s
in America and Britain and peaked in the 1960s. The
movement was inspired by popular and commercial
culture in the western world and began as a rebellion
against traditional forms of art.

Artists
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Keith Haring
Richard Hamilton
Romero Britto
David Hockey
Jasper Johns
Peter Blake

Important names that contributed to the
movement
The immediate predecessors of the Pop artists were
Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, and Robert Rauschenberg,
American artists who in the 1950s painted flags, beer
cans, and other, similar objects, though with a painterly,
expressive technique.

¡Thank you!
Vanessa Acosta, Mariana Armenta & Zulema Encinas