Category: Group – Talking Art

Futurism  was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasised dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Its key figures included Italian artists Filippo Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrá, Gino Severini…

The artists who came to be known as Fauvists (“Wild Beasts”) emphasised colour as a structural and expressive methods into art in the early twentieth century. Their impact was such that the world of art shifted on its axis: all subsequent movements were influenced, and the “look” of the man made environment changed irrevocably. From…