Luigi Russolo Futurism

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Futurism is a new art movement arose in Italy during early 20th century. It emphasized speed, youth, and violence, and interested in new technology such as cars, televisions even industrial city. “Dynamic, energetic, and violent character of changing the twentieth-century life, especially city life.”( ) Futurism turns central into the urban place and highlighted urbanization. In music, futurism rejected traditionally and introduced experimental sounds that inspired by machines, techniques, and mass communication. Some famous composers involved in futurism and created influential works such as “Art of Noises” by Luigi Russolo.
E.g. Luigi Russolo Luigi Russolo was an Italian Futurist artist. Rather than pure composer, I think …show more content…

This work is more like an art installation and exhibited in Vancouver Art gallery before.

Visual Art: World War I made lots of hot issues came up, such as African slaves, Titanic, and territorial conflict. People in Europe lived in the shadow of tradition and want to free themselves into future. Futurist artists might verge on total abstraction but the idea derived from the physical world. Futurists critique all forms of imitation, harmonies and soft works due to they want to free themselves into the future( Arnason, 2013, p.158).
E.g. Umberto Boccioni Boccioni Famous as his sculpture, a dynamic fusion of his sculptural forms and the surrounding environment. He likes to show the violent action, speed, and dynamics through solid objects. The work Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is the representative of futurism. This work depicted a “machine man” that can be explained as “ superman” in order to express the meaning of Superman. The machine man made by fluttering, curving planes of bronze, which is one of the most stable metals. Overall, the Unique Forms of Continuity in Space demonstrated the idea of strength and freedom that can be clearly seen as the ideology of …show more content…

Because both of them combined traditional art projects with new technology or inspired by mass media. Pop art started in mid-1950s Britain and grew up in the United States, pop artists engaged in a simultaneous critique of “high art” and against all other kinds of art such as expressionism. Artists no longer concerned with the heroic art of painting but interested in the immediate environment of their popular culture and sought to incorporate them into art. Richard Hamilton proposed that pop art is popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous and big business (Arnason, 2013, p.456).

E.g. Richard Hamilton Richard Hamilton was a pioneer of pop art in Britain. Like I mentioned before, he proposed the ideology of pop art. The work Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? was one of the famous pop art work. The frame depicted a modern life that couple has furnished their apartment with products of mass culture: television, tape recorder etc. (Arnason, 2013, p.457). Hamilton used collage to demonstrate the modern apartment and also used this work to critique

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