Art Deco Lost natural element to art nouveau. Coined in 1960s refers to a style that spanned a boom of the roading1920s
Normandie-
Normandie was a cruise, the most largest ocean liner at the time and the worlds fastest She entered service in 1935 . The image of the ship is pointed upwards. It is man made by Saint- Nazaire, shapes bold its a machine technical developments looked at a period of technological change but relied on old images. Narmandie went France, Southampton, new York -art deco capital! Buildings that are typical of 1930-40s such as empire state(1930s)
Technology art deco uses it with design
Designs were left behind because of technology.
It drew on tradition and yet celebrated tetanised modern world
It embraced both art and craft and machine production, exclusive works of high art and new products in affordable materials
it responded to the human need for pleasure and escape
Willaim Moris fabric design to alphonse mucha poster for sarah
Flapper
Jacob Epstein
It was the style of the flapper girl and the factory, the luxury ocean liner and the skyscraper, the fantasy world of Hollywood and the real world of the Harlem Renaissance. Womens dresses hung straight so there was no shape to the body, also they had short hair.
Futurism
it was an artistic movement which begun in Italy in 1909 before the world war, it strongly rejected traditional forms and embraced the energy and dynamism of modern technology. Launched by Filippo Marinetti, it had effectively ended by 1918 but was widely influential, particularly in Russia on figures such as Malevich and Mayakovsky.
George Sorel, who influenced the entire political spectrum from anarchism to Fascism, also argued for the importance of violence.
Giacomo Balla:- was an art teacher and participated later in Futurism. In his art he created a pictorial depiction of light, movement and speed.
Futurist manifesto:- It initiated an artistic philosophy, Futurism, that was a rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry; it was also an advocation of the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy.
Filippo Marinetti
Marinetti is known best as the author of the futurist manifesto, which he wrote in 1909. He wrote this because he loved speed, and he had a minor car accident outside Milan in 1909 when he veered into a ditch to avoid two cyclists. He referred to the accident in the Futurist Manifesto: the Marinetti who was helped out of the ditch was a new man, determined to end the pretense and decadence of the prevailing Liberty style.
He discussed a new and strongly revolutionary programme with his friends, in which they should end every artistic relationship with the past, and burn libraries to get rid of the past and look at machinery and mechanism future.
Vorticism
The movement was announced in 1914.vorticism led from futurism and was inspired by cubism, tending towards abstraction, They imagined they were in the vortex, stood in centre of vortex. The Vorticism group began with the Rebel Art Centre which Wyndham Lewis and others established after disagreeing with omega workshops founder Roger Fry, and has roots in Cubism and Futurism.
Percy Wyndham Lewis
Lewis himself saw Vorticism as an independent alternative to Cubism, Futurism and Expressionism.
Cubism
is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in Music, literature, and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.
Henry moore was influenced by jacob
'The Rock Drill'
Between 1913 and 1915 Before war Epstein created 'the rock drill' which consists of a figure modelled in plaster. The extraordinary thing about this mechanised abstracted human figure is that it sat on top of a real miner’s rock drill,as Machines joined with humans to make future.
Epstein said: “I made and mounted a machine-like robot, visored, menacing, and carrying within itself its progeny, protectively ensconced. Here is the armed, sinister figure of today and tomorrow. No humanity, only the terrible Frankenstein’s monster we have made ourselves into…” After the war he dismantled it and took the drill away from the sculpture dismembered the figure and cut it in half, leaving a one-armed torso which was then cast, initially in gun metal and ultimately in bronze.
Gaudier-brzeska- Brzeska died in 1st world war,he took on name brzeska as a double barel from his Polish partner.
Gaudier-brzeska was Killed in first world war in 1915 aged 23
Created mechanical objects After coming under the influence of Jacob Epstein in 1912, he began to believe that sculpture should leave behind the highly finished, polished style of ancient Greece and embrace a more earthy direct carving, in which the tool marks are left visible on the final work as a fingerprint of the artist. A crucial meeting with Jacob Epstein strengthened Gaudier-Brzeska's determination to pursue a more experimental direction.
empire states building
