Poses, power, and perfection Oct 5, 2008
"Futurism and Paris: An Explosive Avant-Garde": Futurism, an artistic movement heralding energy and speed, helped usher in the 20th century. Feb. 20, 1909, marks the 100th anniversary of Filippo Marinetti's celebrated "Futurist Manifesto." To observe the centenary, the Pompidou Center has gathered artworks and documents concerning this noisiest and highest-velocity of cultural isms. (Boston Globe)
The Big Rewind Sep 24, 2008
So, in music as in the other arts, the 20th century spread out in a series of contrarieties: futurism and primitivism, hyper-structure and chance, ultracomplexity and minimalism, shock-the-bourgeoisie art and Pop Art. As of the second half of the century, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Bartk made up the holy trinity of musical Modernism, with Webern as chief prophet. (Slate)
Fashion: Rodarte Sep 11, 2008
"And fossils!," referring to the sand scenes in "Star Wars' and to the "Spiral Jetty" project in Utah from the artist Robert Smithson. Really? Really! Were those loops and strands across the torso actually gleaned from skeletal forms? And was that saturated color drawn from an iconic movie? Creative juices flow in strange ways. But in practical, down-to-earth New York Fashion Week, it is a relief to see designers bringing something from a wellspring of inspiration, rather than just making... (International Herald Tribune)
Death Race: Worth a Test Drive Aug 25, 2008
(Wait, this isn't futurism; it's a Daily Kos blog. On a nouveau Alcatraz called Terminal Island, Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen, merging her purse-lipped Pat Nixon impersonation with the imperious tenseness of Dick Nixon in late-Watergate mode) is in charge of an annual televised car-nage held on a giant track within the prison. (Time.com)
'Iron Fists': The insidious side of brand loyalty Aug 1, 2008
Mussolini and Lenin were more accommodating of Modernist impulses than Hitler, who declared war on "degenerate art" while making an exception for the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's "paradigms of heroic branding." The temporary "fusion" of Fascism and the technology-embracing art movement known as Futurism led to some terrific pro-Mussolini visual design before Il Duce settled for neo-Classical "Roman" kitsch instead. Multimedia. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Looking for tasty art in the noodle soup of life Jul 2, 2008
It's a century since Futurism wound the spring; Dada smashed it and surrealism moon- walked our imaginations through the subconscious. Cubism showed us all was contingent; existentialism that all was meaningless; Warhol made it stick, to itself and to us. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
A Severini climbs to £15.04 million in a dazzling Impressionist and Modern sale Jun 26, 2008
In contrast to French Cubism, which influenced Futurism but was static, Severini's "Danseuse" indeed gives the impression of being caught in a swirling movement. The light tonalities enhance the alacrity of the picture that further differentiates it from the severe compositions devised by Braque and Picasso in their early Cubist phase. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A Monet sets record at £40.92 million in Christie's sale Jun 25, 2008
Here too the influence of Futurism can be recognized, transformed by a palette borrowed from French Fauvism, with its luminous reds, blues and greens. It resulted in a highly distinctive style much admired in its day by art critics and fellow painters. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Art.view: The next blue chip Jun 22, 2008
Finding the future in Futurism ... Emboldened by this success, Sotheby's is now embarking on a far bigger and riskier, venture: that the new hot thing is Italian Futurism, a brilliant if short-lived movement that grew out of Cubism before the first world war and was crucial to the development of Modernism ... Futurism epitomised the fascination with movement and speed. (The Economist)
Designing the future in raw, fractured forms May 25, 2008
Newson fell for Kubrick's celluloid futurism as a kid in 1970s Australia, and his reinterpretation of its seductive qualities is a big part of his appeal to "design-art" collectors today ... "Too much positive thinking can be a bad thing, and the urge to only look at the bright side can become a form of denial when things really are going wrong." So wrong that even 1960s futurism has palled ... Other young designers have adopted his "survivalist" style of futurism too. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The visionary painting of an agonised soul Apr 23, 2008
He kept his distance from the new art movements, even those originating in the French capital, such as Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism. Instead Soutine developed a highly individualistic style characterised by the use of thick impasto paint applied thickly - agitated brushwork and strong emotional content. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Explore Cuban Art Apr 20, 2008
His style combined Futurism, machine art and surrealistic aesthetics and his themes often include capitalism and its ravaging effects on human life and morale; surely his collection refutes any preconceived notions about Cuban art being light and joyful with its insightful, yet sombre images. A Must-See Exposition. (Suite101.com)
* Food as experiment, politics and artistic stunt enters the scene Apr 13, 2008
Marinetti coined the term Futurism for the art movement he founded in 1909 ... Futurism and other avant-garde movements like surrealism and Dadaism have had a well-documented impact in the arts, visible in everything from the paintings of Salvador Dali to the free-associating slapstick of the Marx Brothers ... Futurism;;s influence on the way we eat today is less obvious. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Designer Gas Masks Arrive Apr 10, 2008
April 9, 2008 - Being a fan of technology and futurism tends to trend one's tastes along certain lines, one of them being an affection for the potential of a post-apocalyptic future of highly stylized survivalism. The Fallout gaming franchise and countless movies have played upon this theme, but what really turns us on is when emblematic relics of such a pseudo future are made flesh in our world today. (IGN Gear)
Futurist feasts that go way beyond food Apr 8, 2008
Marinetti coined the term Futurism for the art movement he founded in 1909. Intended as a celebration of modernity and a rejection of romance and sentiment, it was dedicated to modernity and speed, to the violent, the urban and the mechanical. (Xinhuanet, China)
Magda McHale, sociologist and futurist thinker; at 86 Mar 24, 2008
NEW YORK - Magda Cordell McHale, an artist who was one of the founding members of the Independent Group in London in the early 1950s and later became a renowned sociologist and writer in the field of futurism, died Feb. 21 in Buffalo ... In 1961, having divorced and remarried, she moved with John McHale to the United States, where they embarked on careers in futurism, an interdisciplinary field that studies global prospects for human development. (Boston Globe)
Magda Cordell McHale, 86, artist and futurist, dies Mar 19, 2008
Magda Cordell McHale, an artist who was one of the founding members of the Independent Group in London in the early 1950s and later became a renowned sociologist and writer in the field of futurism, died Feb. 21 in Buffalo, New York ... In 1961, having divorced and remarried, she moved with John McHale to the United States, where together they embarked on careers in futurism, an interdisciplinary field that studies global prospects for human development. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Paris Fashion Week Feb 27, 2008
But the shiny surfaces and rubbery latex, used as a hint of perversity on shoes or wrapped around boots, and later in the most extraordinary way for hand-painted samurai armor, added the space-age futurism that has always been part of Ghesqui. re's oeuvre. (International Herald Tribune)
Eric Estorick: The making of an art collector Feb 16, 2008
Passionate about avant-garde art, Bryks showed Eric Umberto Boccioni's book on Futurism with illustrations by Severini, Giacomo Balla and other artists ... In 1950 he had managed to buy an important still life of 1917 by Severini in which Cubist stylization is somehow combined with the sense of movement that runs through Futurism. (International Herald Tribune)
George Washington - First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen Feb 10, 2008
He was a teenage prodigy whose father had died when he was 11; a practical surveyor who generated plans for systems of roads, canals and public works, statesman, commanding general, business executive; farmer, real estate developer; pioneer and frontiersman long before Boone and Crockett; idealist, constant self-improver; justice of the peace, agronomist; millionaire, (in today's terms); animal breeder, (mules, bison); Episcopal vestryman, legislator visionary with a continental sweep to his... (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
A world at war, artists at work Jan 30, 2008
It was a time when social and economic turmoil brushed up against unprecedented technological advancement, and the exhibit, including lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and color linocuts, illustrates the effects of those changes, as well as the influence of Italian Futurism and French Cubism on the way British artists depicted the world around them. Today 10 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. (Through June 1). (Boston Globe)
Breaking the Rules Nov 20, 2007
Cubism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Futurism at the British Library ... The term 'avant garde' includes a number of artistic styles, each regarded as a movement in its own right such as Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism and Surrealism. (Suite101.com)
Caustic postwar art, through German eyes Nov 6, 2007
This show offers several possible answers, not least that young artists who were influenced by German Expressionism and Italian Futurism were well equipped to depict the nightmarish clash between man and machine. Some of the few oils on display here, like Dix's "House on Fire at Angres," are more abstract than figurative. (International Herald Tribune)
The post-Sputnik years: How outer space captivated a generation Sep 26, 2007
The look, sometimes called Googie, after Lautner's design for the Googie's coffee shop in Los Angeles, predated the Sputnik launching and had influences back to Wayne McAllister's curvaceous hotels and drive-ins, to Frank Lloyd Wright and even to Futurism in the 1920s. It took off along with the space race and produced buildings that tried very hard to bring the Jetsons to life, like Lautner's 1960 Chemosphere, a saucer-shaped house that looks as if it is preparing to hover out over the... (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Holding back the years Sep 17, 2007
To take this extraordinary futurism to its logical conclusion, chatting up someone in a bar in 200 years' time we would be uncertain if the beautiful person opposite was 25 or 250 years old. But de Grey is in bad company when it comes to predicting a significant extension in life span. (Guardian Unlimited -- Life)
Turbulent Infinity: Ferdinand Ahm Krag Aug 13, 2007
For Ahm Krag clearly draws upon numerous sources such as constructivism, futurism, psychedelic art, op-art, science-fiction, textile design and computer-generated visualisations of sound. Ahm Krag has articulated the following about his method of drawing: These are meditative repetitions of the straight line, of the horizon line. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Chairs sitting pretty as a design icon, but for how long? Aug 12, 2007
A sexy slice of 1960s futurism like the S-shaped Panton. The Marc Newson chaise longue that sold for a smidgen less than $1 million at Sotheby's last summer. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Russia's flirtation with internationalism Aug 11, 2007
When the poet Filippo Tomaso Marinetti proclaimed in Italy that it was necessary to break with the past and launched "Futurism" in 1909, the painters Giacomo Balla, Boccioni, Carlo Carr ... Italian Futurism was an art with a swirling movement that gave whatever it borrowed from French Cubism an irresistible dynamic thrust ... In Russia Futurism covered pretty much anything the artists wished to fit under that heading. (International Herald Tribune)
Capturing spontaneity as composed chaos Jul 22, 2007
Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, Constructivism, on down to Pop Art, minimalism and conceptual art -- all purported to originate or restart some project of formal, political or aesthetic progress. To this day, the search for something novel in individual temperament, or in the solidarity of an artistic cohort, has not abated, although nowadays the art market seeks it even more aggressively than do young artists themselves. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Local artist selected for 'One Show' Jul 13, 2007
Using acrylics and mixed media, with occasional found objects, Perkins works from his imagination to create abstractions that "transcribe reality through surrealistic images." His influences are abstract impressionism, futurism and pop art. Perkins struggled early in his career between letting the life-giving energy he saw appear on canvas, and containing his ambition while making a living in the higher paying professions of graphic art and computer tech positions. (North Channel Sun, TX)
6/21: SMoCA Nights: 'Sputnik' Jun 19, 2007
And in the spirit of all this futurism, check out your own with tarot readings by Ozma. . (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Rather strange developments Jun 7, 2007
The pieces represent avant-garde art movements such as Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, De Stijl (or Neo-Plasticism), Constructivism, Dadaism, Surrealism and other abstract styles. "Why did these people start to experiment with representing reality in a radically different way?" van de Guchte said. (Jacksonville Business Journal, FL)
South Korea's rapidly renovating capital Jun 3, 2007
SEOUL lives life on the edge / Just 35 miles from the border with North Korea, the city crackles with a newfound sense of style (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
* Scratch the surface May 31, 2007
That exhibit revealed how certain early 20th century art movements, such as Italian Futurism and Russian Constructivism, combined fashion with art as a means of complimenting their notions of a utopian society. By the mid-century, the distance between art and fashion were narrowed as Pop art merged the two in a conscious effort to erase the distance between high and low art. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
"Rather Strange Developments" at the Cummer May 19, 2007
Paintings, sculptures, pastels and collages by renowned artists including Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee exemplify the avant-garde artistic movements of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, De Stijl (also known as Neo-Plasticism), Dada and Surrealism as well as other abstract and non-objective styles. Members, Free. (Florida Times-Union)
A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia Mar 30, 2007
The first exhibition in England to focus on the complex and fascinating relationship between Russian and Italian Futurism is to be held at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, from Wednesday 28 March until Sunday 10 June 2007 ... After founding Futurism in 1909, F. T. Marinettis ambition was to establish an international Futurist movement that would develop his own groups activities, achievements and interests ... While both movements were fascinated... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Lyonel Feininger Exhibition Mar 28, 2007
Paper lent itself favorably to Feininger's matured style incorporating elements of expressionism, cubism, fauvism, and futurism. Feiniger's distictive style forming a "multi-layered symbiosis between Romanticism, reality, and vision" is widely described as "Crystalline Cubism" for the particular, architecture-like sharpness of its forms. (Suite101.com)
Mod, mod world (Deborah K. Dietsch) Mar 17, 2007
It begins with the series of movements -- French cubism, Italian futurism, German expressionism, Russian construc- tivism -- that sprang up around World War I. Their goals may have been unrealistic, but their startling images had a profound effect on the artistic world. Mies van der Rohe's visionary glass skyscraper, Kazimir Malevich's abstract paintings and Giacomo Balla's brightly patterned wool suit still resonate today. (Washington Times)
Paris, chic to chic Mar 8, 2007
Last season it was futurism, now it's ethnic print-meets-prep school. Middle Eastern-inspired prints were wrapped into bohemian dresses that looked as if they were made of one giant, fringed scarf. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Lanvin's winged victory Mar 6, 2007
"I wanted to go back home after the moon, where do you go?" said Elbaz, who embraced futurism last season but in this powerful new collection showed himself to be a quiet revolutionary. "Home" was the house of Lanvin in the 1930s. (International Herald Tribune)
It's Googie à go-go Feb 7, 2007
"Interpreting futurism as a historical style? That's far out.". august. (Los Angeles Times)
Mapping the road to the future Jan 25, 2007
But for purposes of futurism, growth in educational spending may be more to the point. The secondary education spending growth map shows total increases for children aged 11 to 17 - the time when kids start getting a mind of their own (necessary to innovation, however annoying it is to parents). (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Former glory| Jan 19, 2007
This movement was, in a sense, an amalgamation of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Constructionism, Cubism, Modernism, Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, and Futurism. Many early apartments were built during this era and both the houses and flats enjoyed block-like architecture with slightly rounded edges and chevron details. (iAfrica.com)
