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  The world through a  Futurist's point of view Futurism - described as an art movement that went beyond just creativity and spreading the love for art and change together. Futurism went beyond all of that, It believed in the destruction and total ignorance of what was then, what made us evolve, where we learnt from and what we've grown up knowing saying: IN ORDER TO GROW, WE NEED TO FORGET  THE PAST AND EVERYTHING  THAT WAS IN IT. People in train painting,  source: pinimg.com Colour streaks on canvas, source: pinmg.com Lancers by Gio Severinni source: cloudfront.net Horizontal Volumes by Umberto Bocionni 1912, source: wikimedia.org It became a movement that comprised of recycled ideas and values of other movements that had either died down or still continued. These movements were: Post Impressionism Cubism Divisionism Pointilism Headed by an Italian poet by the name of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti with artists  Umberto Boccioni
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A self portrait of Henri Matisse himself , painted in 1906, in oil paint medium source: wikimedia.org A Deeper look at   Fauvism According to (Webster, 2017) Fauvism is seen as a movement in art where the artworks were known to having intensely deep and bright colours which had an overall decorative final finish.  In this piece we can see the realistic skin tone colour pallette of browns, creams and earth tone colours. with the intense vibrant sky blue and hints of red on the clothing and background surface. Artists could explore all sorts of compositions using this method, from landscapes, portraiture, objects, architecture, etc. The term Fauv was believed to have meant "work of wild beasts" (boredart.com, 2016) Origination from an inspirational teacher who went by the name of Gustave Moreau a symbollist painter who lived and worked in Paris France  Pioneered by artists from Denmark named Henri Matisse, and Andre Derain it took a beautiful, simple and self ex
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Art Nouveau (Britanicca, 2014) defines Art Nouveau as an artisitic movement first originating in England that dominated Europe and the United States between the times of 1890 and 1914 that sets itself apart from the other artisitic movements uses: Organic shapes,  long sinuous lines,  decorative elements that drew inspiration from different cultures from around the world This artistic movement took on many names differing from country to country especially in these few european countries where it took on the name of: Jugendstil in Germany Sezessionstil in Austria Stil Floreale or Stil Liberty in Italy Tiffany Style in America Much like the other Artistic styles around that time Art Nouveau applied itself and was incorporated in many other disciplines such as Architecture, interior design, Communicative material such as (posters, paintings, furniture), and jewellery to name a few. Art Nouveau emerging from the rebel against artists and graphic designers wan