Summary: This reading talked about modern art that came about in the early 21st century. Many advances in technology were made, as well as many new styles of graphic design and art. The first introduced is Cubism which focused more on using shapes to make normal things abstract. Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne were the most influential on this style. While Cubism evolved into Analytical cubism, where different points of view were analyzed to form a picture using rhythm of geometric planes. Analytical soon became synthetic cubism which focused on the basic characteristics of an object rather than the whole thing. The next style was Futurism which came from Filippo Marinetti's works. It took different typefaces and displayed them in a colorful, non-harmonious way, contradicting past styles. This style burst into works of poetry and writing in unfamiliar, chaotic styles by writers such as Lewis Carroll, Stephane Mallarme, and Guillaume Apollinaire. The next style was called Dada, which completely rebelled against things such as war and strayed away from the normal styles of art. One of the main artists of this style was Marcel Duchamp and he created a replica of the the mona lisa with a mustache on it. The Dada soon turned into the style called Surrealism, which started with Giorgio de Chirico. The surrealist style added a dream-like quality to art. Lastly, the Expressionism style emerged, and it was a way of showing emotion through objects and colors.
2.) The part I found the most interesting was Dada because I have never really read about this type of art and I thought it was kind of cool how they were standing up to society and for what they believed in. Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa picture really seemed to upset a lot of people, but he was just trying to make a statement.
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