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What is Futurism Futurism can be defined as a 20th century style art movement that was formed based on the focus to express the power, speed and values of the machine age ( www.dictionary.com ). The art style was originally started by a group of Italian men including the non-other, well know Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti who was the ring leader of the foundation. On February 20,1909 the first official announcement of this new art style was made. Marinetti, being the one to compile up the first descriptive manifesto for himself and he’s artistic group’s Futurism movement, it was soon spread to many. It first appeared on the front page of Le Figaro, which at the time was the largest newspaper that had the biggest circulation in France and with that publicity stunt showed the movements ideology, desire and motives of employing this art style to the new and changing modern world was clearly explained to the public ( www.theartstory-futurism-html ). While the first...

Cubism, one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. Pablo Picasso, ‘Girl with a Mandolin' (1910) (Photo: MoMA via Wikimedia Commons https://mymodernmet.com/what-is-cubism-art/ This blog will be discussing one of the most significant and first abstract style in modern art that was established and adopted by two of the most incredible painters. Furthermore, will be briefed out in terms of how the new art visual language, name of the movement and stylistic characteristics came into being ( Nesic , 2017: no. p) . Cubism was created by It was created by the nonother Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) and French acquaintance Georges Braque (1882–1963), together they formed this new movement in Paris between 1907 and 1914 and adopted the name that the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L’Estaque in emulation. He referred to the geometric forms in the highly abstracted ...

Art Nouveau In this blog I will be diving into the Art Nouveau movement and explaining its great influence to the world in detail from the er a  it was established, I will  also   be providing a couple of art work examples that were created using this style (movement)  and the motive behind them. What is Art Nouveau? The Art Nouveau is a genre characterized by a focus interest in nature, both in terms of style and in subject matter. From its e arly existence  1890  all the w ay  through to 1910, the movement swept through Europe, resonating particularly strongly motive in abandoning academic art of the 19th century (www.brit annic a.com ). Art Nouveau emphasis was aimed at modernising design in so doing escaping the eclectic (diverse) historical styles that had been previously popular. Art Nouveau also known as the Glasgow style in the German-speaking world or alternatively the Jugendstil drew most of its focus on creating art that ...

Glasgow School and Viennese Secession Architecture, interior designing and painting were the three forms of art that were  the focus grow and nourished in the Glasgow world and since its beginning in the 1890’s(http://www.artscrafts.org.uk/branches/glasgow.html), the pioneers of Glasgow school were the “Glasgow Four” known as Charles Mackintosh, Herbert Macnair, Margret Macdonald and Frances Macdonald. These four men integrated a system of decorative forms and an overall look that was uniquely and exclusively their own, as they achieved a pared down version of Art Nouveau that paved the way for Modernist Minimalism. Their style featured a Scottish spirit  that was infused by means of heathery (resembling) colors and mystical Celtic symbols. The pioneers of Glasgow absorbed many influences in an entirely personalized way own in order to create their Art Nouveau language (http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/vienna-secession.html).  DEVELOPMENTS I...