Futurisn and Dadaism and Gillian Ayres

Futurism and Dadaism

Example of Dadaism

Futurism is something that started in Italy in the twentieth century and is something that developed into many things including expressionism. This movement set out to show items of the future and to glorify them and make them be seen in a way that they've never been seen before; this was the start of abstraction. This style was used in all disciplines including printmaking and sculpture. Futurism was a key part in modern art development and remained popular until the start of world war two where expressionism started to develop.

Something that this celebrated was the age of machine, where cars, planes and all sorts of new engineering became popular. The work was very engendered and architectural, the use of line and shape within the work. The work is very subjective; it is very focused on man made things people where very proud of these inventions and of going to war. I was seemed as a good thing to the artists something that they hadn't really experienced before.

However Dadaism was a protest movement that happened at the same time as futurism, but it protested against the changes that where happening, but I quite like the changes in shape that were used in the work. I wanted to look at these movements because of their use of shape line and colour attracted me to them. I think that I'm going take into consideration the shapes and the way that they sit next to each other when creating my work next week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism

Gillian Ayres

Distillation 1957 213 X 150 Cm

Ayres is an English painter who studied in London and continues to work in the UK. I wanted to look at the work because of her use of colour and the way that the paint is applied. In my own work I have been using similar colours and shapes. Ayres uses oil paints and often paints with her hands she believes that this gives her more control over the paint.

The works have very simple forms within it usually in the form of circles and squares. The work is very decorative; the main focus of the work is on the mark making and rhythm of the colour changes. She is inspired by Jackson Pollock and Monet's late work, the scale of the mark making is a way of showing her emotions she wanted to feel a sense of being sublime through making her work.

Ayres believes that the paintings have each have a character to them and often makes her work when it is flat on the floor, just like Pollock. She uses the paint thinner to manipulate the paint and make the colours balanced throughout the painting. I think that I will try manipulating the paint in the same way that Ayres does and also applying it in the same way to see if that brings the painterly texture that I want to achieve to my work in a better way.

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ayres-distillation-t01714