Week 6 - Modernism III: The Avant-Garde Between Freedom and Dictatorship

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Ideology

• a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual group or culture

• the integrated assertions, theories and aims that constitute a socio-political program

• a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture

• visionary theorizing

Sinicism, a time of more conflict and competing ideologies

Goal of art - less about fining the truth and more about best expression of ideology politicised point of view

impression is something you get (outside) express is internal

Ernst Ludwig

• people walking in some sort of scenery

• getting to the root of the image in its most simplest form

• men and women (equal)

express

• who you are as an individual

• express with whole body

• fairly busy with lots of patterns and clusters of people

• only relief of the patters beyond the people assuming that the borders of the city is the blue lines

• male and female, the woman’s legs are red compare to the green

Gino Severini

• tower, cannon, people shooting with guns

• bright lights and clouds

• war imagery

Futurism

• positive violence - seems like there are these rays of light coming down onto the soldiers maybe God approves

• cubist-influence

• movement emphasised - power + force, speed

• military - powerful

• industry - machine

• inhuman - joy and delight of the machine, faceless men (unified) they are machine like

‘The tube train’ looks like a cool print