Under the label of Modern Art theorists tend to include a wide range of movements active from around the 1860s to around 1970s. Its commencement is usually considered Edouard Manet‘s exhibition of the painting Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (“The Luncheon on the Grass”) in Paris in 1863. But a modern innovation in the use of colours was alive already in Florence in 1855, when the movement of Macchiaioli began its activity. The most prominent among them being Giovanni Fattori and Telemaco Signorini, their painting featured the use of “macchie” (colour blots) instead of lines as was commonly in use before.
Metaphysical painting is the most noticeable current of the fin de siècle period, with Giorgio De Chirico, Carlo Carrà, Giorgio Morandi and Filippo de Pisis as the most important painters whose works Dada and Surrealism will draw upon. Their art meant to explore the meaning of common objects out of their contexts, hence such outcomes as De Chirico’s famous “Metaphysical Squares”. Now their works are exhibited in the most famous museums around the world, and continue to influence modern works of art such as films and video-games with their airy architectures.
Last, but not least, movement we would like to remember among those characterizing Modern art in Italy, is the Futurism. Born as a literary movement in 1909, it soon spread to influence other fields such as painting, sculpture and architecture. Famous are the works by Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Severini and Russolo, of the first Futurist period. From 1929 until 1938, it joined in the line of Surrealism and produced artists such as Ardengo Soffici and Ottone Rosai. It distinguished itself mostly for its strong criticism to established forms of art, theorizing freedom of movement for shapes in space, manly force, war, speed and the power of technology. They can be seen as among the founding father of post-modern art at a global scale.
Posted by www.globaltravelpromotion.com
Tags: architectures, Modern, museums, war