Futurism was a celebration of the machine age, glorifying war and favoring the growth of fascism. Futurist painting and sculpture were especially concerned with expressing movement and the dynamics of natural and man-made forms. Dynamism of an Automobile-Luigi Russolo, 1912. The confusion has persisted, however, becau.

Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature uses numerous techniques and games to provide inspiration. Many of these are said to free imagination by producing a creative process free of conscious control. The importance of the unconscious as a source of inspiration is central to the nature of surrealism. Was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. The Disquieting Muses - de Chiricio. Max Ernst - by Paul Eluard.

The Programme - Georges Braque. In 1911, Braque started to introduce letters and words into his compositions, first as stencils, then rendered freehand. Picasso was soon doing the same, and Cubist compositions began to fill up with texts derived from newspaper mastheads, bottle labels and the typography of musical scores. Landscape with Posters, Sorgues - Picasso, 1912. Are these texts meant to be making specific commentaries on the social lives of the artists? If we acknowl.

Symbolism in art represents an outgrowth of the darker, Gothic side of Romanticism with its mystical tendencies. It was closely aligned with the self-consciously dark and private decadent movement. The symbolist painters mined mythology and dream imagery for a visual language of the soul. The symbols used in symbolism are not the familiar emblems of mainstream iconography but intensely personal, private, obscure and ambiguous references.

The Pilgrim is Bridled and Bespectacled-Bridget Lowe. Words and Images -Four Central Questions.

Artists Among Poets - Performance Art. In performance art, the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any venue or setting and for any length of time. Performance art genres include body art.

Artists Among Poets - Conceptual Art. Conceptual art is art in which the conceptual idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

Artists Among Poets-Earth and Installation Art. Spiral Jetty - Robert Smithson. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Coast, One Million Square Feet, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia. Turbine Hall, The Tate Modern, London. A recent exhibit at Montserrat College of Art uses poetry to raise awareness about ecological sustainability.

Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world.

Abstract expressionism was an American post-World War II art movement. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve worldwide influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. In the US, Alfred Barr was the first to use this term in 1929 in relation to works by Wassily Kandinsky. During the late 1940s Jackson Pollock. And constructed sculpture, Pollock redefined what it was to produce art.