« ‘The unconscious is a very important element of modern art and I think that the instincts of the unconscious have great meaning for those who look at a painting.’»
Jackson Pollock | painter
This map looks at the XX century under a hand lens as an organic matter with nucleus and filaments generated around. It explains national and international movements, born around essential trends of the end of XIX century and beginning XX century. Those movements are depicted as coloured nucleus. The map includes also a list of important artists who influenced the artistic scene.
« ‘The unconscious is a very important element of modern art and I think that the instincts of the unconscious have great meaning for those who look at a painting.’»
Jackson Pollock | painter
The impressionists, for the first time, face against the world that the objective reality don’t exist and show the world as they see it. A new awareness is declared. This event have old roots: Enlightenment, French Revolution, …
New philosophies, important technological progress, such as electric current, photography, cinematograph, the experiments of Guglielmo Marconi, Einstein’s principale of relativity - 1965 - industrial revolution, the automobile, the big development of armament. The world is running fast.
Artistic movements explode . This map shows their development, starting from the first avant-garde: Expressionism Cubism, Futurism, Abstraction, Surrealism, ...
"ART IN XX CENTURY"
Standard sizes
cm 100 x cm 105
cm 110 x cm 117
cm 120 x cm 126
AUTHOR: studies and text by Elisa Spinelli.
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On the background of the map you can find the artists that give birth to the movements of the XX Century. The influences among all the actors of the artistic movements is highlighted by transparencies on the map. Last century is very closed to our time. For this reason, the point of view of the author is inevitable in the development of this map. The aim of the map is to describe the huge fragmentation that artistic movements experience in around 100 years.
