DADA & FUTURISM Kelsey, Claire, & Issa

FUTURISM MOVEMENT• Italian avant-garde art movement in

the 20th century

• celebrated technology and urban modernity while hoping to destroy older forms of culture.

• Interested in embracing popular media and new technologies to communicate their ideas.

FUTURISM’S PURPOSE• Glorify themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth, and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city.

FUTURISM INFLUENCED…• Dada, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Constructivism, Cubism, Surrealism

• Combined activism with art, a trend that continues today

FUTURISM’S KEY FIGURES

FILIPPO TOMMASOMARINETTI

FUTURISM’S KEY FIGURES

UMBERTO BOCCIONI

FUTURISM’S KEY FIGURES

GINO SEVERINI

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DADA MOVEMENT • A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920.

• The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature, theatre, and graphic design.

• Concentrated on anti-war politics.

DADA’S PURPOSE• Dada writers and artists were concerned with shock, protest, and nonsense.

• Rebelled against horrors of war, decadence of European society, shallowness of blind faith in technological progress, & inadequacy of religion and conventional moral codes

DADA INFLUENCED…• Futurism, Pop art, Postmodernism

• Initiated interest in collage and photomontage work

DADA’S KEY FIGURES

HUGO BALL

DADA’S KEY FIGURES

HANNAH HOCH

DADA’S KEY FIGURES

FRANCIS PICABIA

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