1. Futurism / Dada / Surrealism
Subject #5
Futurism / Dada / Surrealism
Ryker Drake

2. Abstract Sculpting - Constantin Brancusi
Born in a tiny peasant village in Romania
Had a skill for carving and villagers raised money to
send him to a school of crafts
Interested in the art of non-Western people, African,
Egyptian, Buddhist, and Cycladic
Bird in Space was his way of displaying his desire for purity
Sculpture
Bronze
1928
Bird in Space
Constantin Brancusi

3. Futurism Refused traditional art forms
Expression modern technology dynamism
Tomasso Marinetti - Italian Poet, Playwright, Professional Agitator
Talked about the new world technology
He wrote the “Manifesto of Futurism”
Futurism: Not looking into the past; celebrated the age of the machine

4. Futurism - Umberto Boccioni
Artist: Umberto Boccioni -
Young Italian Artist who joined the
Futurism movement
The City Rises -
Oil on canvas
Painting shows how “Futurist
painters adapted Cubism to create
waves of muscular energy”
(Pg 406)
The City Rises
Umberto Boccioni

5. Futurism - Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space -
Sculpture
Bronze
1913
A sculpture that puts the painting
The City Rises in a 3D form
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni
1913

6. Dada
Started after a war of on the ways of conventional thinking by the Dadaists
Dada means nothing
Dada art was anarchic and humorous but also deadly serious
Dada was mainly made to frustrate and confuse audiences
Dada was considered to be worthless rubbish to be discarded

7. Dada - Marcel Duchamp Dada artist with interesting but weird artworks
Famous work - Nude Descending a Staircase
Painting
Oil on canvas
1912
Funny Fact: The Evening Star called the painting The Rude Descending a Staircase

8. Nude Descending a Staircase Marcel Duchamp 1912
The Rude Descending a Staircase
The Evening Star
1913

9. Dada - Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp’s artwork Fountain was literally thrown out of the International Exhibition of Modern Art show
Had Richard Mutt written on it (a plumbing manufacturer)
He called it a ‘ready made art’
He pretty much stated that any everyday object could be art

10. Fountain
Marcel Duchamp
1917

11. Dada Juxtaposition: Unrelated objects that are taken out
of their normal context and joined together producing
a new unique object.
Artwork - Gift
Man Ray
1921
A use of juxtaposition
Sculpture
Gift
Man Ray
1921

12. Surrealism Many Dadaists organized under the Surrealism movement
Surrealism: “More real than reality” - an art of dreams and the irrational unconscious
A world of fantasy and imagination
Artwork - Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
Giorgio de Chirico
Painting
Oil on canvas
1914

13. Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
Giorgio de Chirico
1914

14. Surrealism - Meret Oppenheim
Surrealists liked visualizing the concept of sexual impulses
Artwork - Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure) or Luncheon in Fur
Meret Oppenheim
Sculpture
1936
Displays the meaning of thirst and sex, first humorous
and then disturbing

15. Surrealism - Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was the greatest master of the style of realism
He could make bizarre images seem believable
Artwork - The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
Oil on canvas
1938
Showcased several strange objects
Irrational juxtaposition - objects are of different size and scale
Meaning is too deep, even Dali doesn’t know what it is

16. The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
1931

17. Surrealism - Salvador Dali
Artwork - Apparition of Face and Fruit-Dish on a Beach
Salvador Dali
Oil on canvas
1938
Picture is filled with a giant dog - not apparent
His eye is a cave
His body and face are a fruit bowl

18. Apparition of Face and Fruit-Dish on a Beach
Salvador Dali
1938

19. Surrealism - Rene Magritte
Artwork - The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images
Rene Magritte
Oil on canvas
The words in the picture mean “this is not a pipe”
Artwork - L’Empire des lumieres (The Empire of Light)
1954
Transition between day and night
Very convincing artwork

20. The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images
Rene Magritte

21. L’Empire des lumieres (The Empire of Light)
Rene Magritte
1954

22. Quiz
10 Questions

23. Question #1
What did Constantin Brancusi display with his artwork Bird in Space?

24. Question #2
What does Futurism mean?

25. Question #3
What does Umberto’s The City Rises painting mean?

26. Question #4 Fill in the blanks:
Dada art was _________ and ___________ but also deadly _________.

27. Question #5
What is the name of this painting?

28. Question #6
What was written on Marcel Duchamp’s artwork Fountain, and what type of art did Duchamp call it?

29. Question #7
Who is the artist?

30. Question #8
What does Juxtaposition mean?

31. Question #9
Why was Salvador Dali the greatest master of the style of realism?

32. Question #10
Who is the artist?

33. Bonus
What do the words in this picture mean?

34. Answers
10 Questions

35. Question #1
What did Constantin Brancusi display with his artwork Bird in Space?
Answer: His desire for purity

36. Question #2 What does Futurism mean?
Answer: Not looking into the past; celebrated the age of the machine

37. Question #3 What does Umberto’s The City Rises painting mean?
Answer: How “Futurist painters adapted Cubism to create waves of muscular energy”

38. Question #4 Fill in the blanks:
Dada art was _________ and ___________ but also deadly _________.
Answer: Dada art was anarchic and humorous but also deadly serious

39. Question #5 What is the name of this painting?
Answer: Nude Descending a Staircase

40. Question #6
What was written on Marcel Duchamp’s artwork Fountain, and what type of art did Duchamp call it?
Answer: Richard Mutt, Ready made art

41. Question #7
Who is the artist?
Answer: Man Ray

42. Question #8 What does Juxtaposition mean?
Answer: Unrelated objects that are taken out of their normal context and joined together producing a new unique object.

43. Question #9
Why was Salvador Dali the greatest master of the style of realism?
Answer: He could make bizarre images seem believable

44. Question #10
Who is the artist?
Answer: Rene Magritte

45. Bonus What do the words in this picture mean?
Answer: “this is not a pipe”

46. Quiz Answers His desire for purity
Not looking into the past; celebrated the age of the machine
How “Futurist painters adapted Cubism to create waves of muscular energy”
Dada art was anarchic and humorous but also deadly serious
Nude Descending a Staircase
Richard Mutt, Ready made art
Man Ray
Unrelated objects that are taken out of their normal context and joined together producing a new unique object.
He could make bizarre images seem believable
Rene Magritte
Bonus: “this is not a pipe”

47. The End - Sources
Lewis, Richard, and Susan I. Lewis. The Power of Art Second Edition. 2nd ed. N.p.: Clark Baxter, n.d. Print.
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