Futurism was a celebration of the machine age, glorifying war and favoring the growth of fascism. Futurist painting and sculpture were especially concerned with expressing movement and the dynamics of natural and man-made forms. Dynamism of an Automobile-Luigi Russolo, 1912. The confusion has persisted, however, becau.

Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature uses numerous techniques and games to provide inspiration. Many of these are said to free imagination by producing a creative process free of conscious control. The importance of the unconscious as a source of inspiration is central to the nature of surrealism. Was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. The Disquieting Muses - de Chiricio. Max Ernst - by Paul Eluard.

The Programme - Georges Braque. In 1911, Braque started to introduce letters and words into his compositions, first as stencils, then rendered freehand. Picasso was soon doing the same, and Cubist compositions began to fill up with texts derived from newspaper mastheads, bottle labels and the typography of musical scores. Landscape with Posters, Sorgues - Picasso, 1912. Are these texts meant to be making specific commentaries on the social lives of the artists? If we acknowl.

Symbolism in art represents an outgrowth of the darker, Gothic side of Romanticism with its mystical tendencies. It was closely aligned with the self-consciously dark and private decadent movement. The symbolist painters mined mythology and dream imagery for a visual language of the soul. The symbols used in symbolism are not the familiar emblems of mainstream iconography but intensely personal, private, obscure and ambiguous references.

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