The influence of modern art. Lets start with cubism. Georges Braque developed cubism and Juan Gris was a painter who developed synthetic cubism. Gris strongly influenced the development of geometric art and design. Cubism was said to have changed painting and some graphic design as well. Moving on to Futurism where they tested art with scientific purposes. Speed and noise had really impacted 20th century life. The futurist painters were strongly influenced by cubism,, but instead they showed more motion and energy. Futurism became a major influence. On to Dada which actually scares me a little bit because they were so anti art, and yet they were considered an art movement. I feel as if they didn't agree on anything. And what I found funny was that to get their name they just opened a dictionary and picked a word. Marcel Duchamp was a very outspoken artist. He even painted a mustache on the Mona Lisa, and this really made the people angry. Dadaists were known for mocking art, more than creating it. Surrealism is next. Andre Breton was the founder of surrealism. Surrealism reminds me of arts taking everyday things in life, and creating art out of it. The Spanish painter Salvador Dali influenced graphic design in a couple of ways by different perspectives and his nature views. Expressionism to me is when artists use how they are feeling or what they are feeling to create their art. Almost everything in their pieces were distorted. The artists of this movement tended to use the poor, and the outcasts as examples for their work. Expressionist consciously looked for new approaches to art and life. The techniques and subject matter of expressionism influenced graphic illustration. These art movements continue to influence artists still to this day.
What was interesting about this chapter was how much information was put into this one chapter. We are now getting more to modern day art, and it is really interesting to see all these different styles over a century ago.
My question from this chapter is why were people in such an uproar when Duchamp painted a mustache on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa if that was the style going on back then?
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To answer your question I would have to say that since Duchamp was a dadaist and the dada movement was a rebellious movement against traditional art. People were outraged because they felt the mustache on the Mona Lisa was disrespectful and inappropriate. Also he did this fairly early in the dada movement.
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