FUTURISM

  

  Futurism

ˈfjuː.tʃər.ɪ.zəm

 noun

- It's an artistic movement, born in France, in Paris around the 70s of the nineteeth century.

- futurism exalted anarchy
- exalted advanced technology
and innovation
- the lights represented the purest form of energy and the extreme limit
of speed
- They represent machines, motorcycles and planes
- they represented the modern city across metropolis, crowd, steets,
social life, violence and change
- are fascinated by the idea of contemporaneity of events
- they mainly used geometric forms and bright colors but each member had
his own distinctive style

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PAINTING CHOSEN

Title: Primavera umbra 

Artist: Gerardo Dottori

Year: 1923

Location: -

Type: Aeropainting

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DESCRIPTION:

The “Primavera umbra” represent a view of Trasimeno Lake, painted with the technique of Aeropainting by Gerardo Dottori, an artist from Perugia. The landscape is seen from the top of a mountain giving the illusion of being on an airplane. This is done to see as much space as possibile and to overcome the limits of the horizon flat line.

In the painting the sky appears only reflected in the lake. From the top you can have simultaneous visions of the colored geometry of houses and fields and the curvy profile of the hills in blue, indicating the distance.

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INTERPRETATION:

Gerardo Dottori loved aero painting in his works. The style emerged from the futurist love of airplanes and photography.

“You must provide a new kind of perspective: a landscape seen from above, it appears as a series of scenic fragments that are each other’s continuation, colors and shapes that overlap each other maintaining a perfect harmony. Through the moods of the airplane speed I could create an earth landscape isolating it from time and space, feeding it with the sky, so that it could become Heaven”  ( Gerardo Dottori)