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arthist0rian · 11 months

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downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

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is such a funny sequence

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arthist0rian · 11 months

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I miei balli plastic

by Fortunato Depero

Oil on canvas, 1918

Among these experiments is the show by the artist Fortunato Depero entitled Balli plastici staged on April 14, 1918 in Rome at the Teatro dei Piccoli in Podrecca. The painted figures, in fact, recall the world of childhood and take on the appearance of toys.

My plastic dances dates back to 1918, an important date that marked the end of the First World War. After this date, in Europe and Italy, a trend referred to as Return to Order spread. The official culture thus banned the abstract experimentations of the historical avant-gardes and pushed the artists to re-propose figuration. In Italy, artists returned to be inspired by historical painting, especially from the pre-Renaissance era. The most representative reality that brought together the new proposals were the great exhibitions referred to as Novecento Italiano organized in the twenties by Margherita Sarfatti.

The composer Casella secured publicity for the show in his magazine entitled Ars Nova. The year after the release of the show, however, Casella himself wrote an editorial against Futurism. The composer in fact heavily criticized the aesthetics and vulgarity in propaganda actions. With this heavy criticism the possibility of experimenting with an Italian futurist musical current was lost.

The style of I miei balli plastici by Fortunato Depero

Fortunato Depero was an artist indicated by art historians as an important exponent of Italian Futurism. In addition, he was one of the promoters and signatories of the Manifesto of Futurist Aeropainting and protagonist of the Second Futurism. This later moment of Futurism was identified by the historian Enrico Crispolti in the late fifties of the twentieth century and later absorbed by convention by the History of Art.

The first Futurism is also called "Heroic Futurism", developed from 1909 to 1916 and founded by artists of anarcho-socialist orientation. The second Futurism instead spread after the First World War, conventionally following the death of Umberto Boccioni in 1918, Antonio Sant'Elia and Carlo Erba. Its adherents were mostly of fascist orientation. The second Futurism was inspired by the "Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe" by Balla and Depero. It was a true artistic and cultural program destined to condition the daily life of Italians.

Space

The complex representation of Fortunato Depero is distributed within an environment reminiscent of the stage of a theater. The scene is also the result of several interpenetrating spaces. The point of view in which the scene is proposed to the observer is higher.

Composition and framing

I miei balli plastici by Fortunato Depero is a square-shaped painting. The frame is wide and reproduces a theatrical scenography.

The compositional structure is ordered on an orthogonal grid within which the different groups of characters are placed. In addition, there are three main horizontal bands that have their own color. At the bottom is the widest green and blue zone. In the center then there is a thin band with warm colors. Finally, at the top is the gray and dark green area in which the puppets are observed.

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arthist0rian · 11 months

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I like america and america likes me back by Joseph Beuys

a performance made in 1974, new york in a gallery in soho.

the artist lived for three days, eight hours a day with a coyote, protected only by a felt blanket and a copper walking stick. the felt blanket was made out of rabbit fur. The material used dated back on his usual material. The felt is comforting and healing for the artist, as when he fought in WWII a nomad balkan tribe helped him healing his wounds with animal fat and felt clothes/blankets. The copper stick has different meanings: it can be seen as a powerful object used to leads the flocks, taking up the imagery of the good pastor in the bible, but also can be seen as a magical object (magic and shamanism, a dowser who feel the invisible energies of the world).

Beuys thought the art was not only for personal but also collective and planetary salvation. he thought that the western culture was sick and in need for a cure, because said culture lead nature and human beings to a balance breakdown. and so the salvation can only be achieved through harmony with nature and even the most aggressive animals.

he did not gt injured by the coyote because they at last started to have trust between them (i also think they fed the coyote before and after the performance to keep it quite, but im not really sure about it, or used a coyote used to human presence, because i don't think no one sane will ever wanted to be put in a cage with a feral and hungry animal)