GAM Milan En (2ndFloor) Room - 9 - (old IX)
Playlist GAM En: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOaeMwhTX1llPjDNus6mGOYLonHFgmx6Q Audioguide Modern Art Gallery Milan GAM - Open the description to read the texts - --------------------------------------------------------------- GAM En (2ndFloor) Room - 9 - (old IX) --------------------------------------------------------------- - Umberto Boccioni (1907) Portrait of the Mother Boccioni is an exponent of Futurist painting but in this work he presents us a classic subject: the portrait of an elderly woman, certainly not in movement. This portrait, one of the many done to his mother, in fact belongs to the first artistic phase of Boccioni, the one still tied to the divisionist and symbolist style. In fact, the publication in the newspaper Le Figarò of Paris, of the Futurist Manifesto, dates back to two years after the realization of this work. The subject is decentralized with an evident photographic cut that eliminates the upper part of the head, thus making the face itself even more evident. The calm and thoughtful look, the hair and the dress, dark and severe, are rendered with rapid and ample brushstrokes. The light defines the volumes illuminating the face that stands out against the background, undefined, and darker. - Giacomo Balla (1913) Car speed This oil on canvas was painted by Giacomo Balla in 1913 and represents the speed of a racing car. Balla is a futurist painter, as it is clearly stated in the Futurist Manifesto, and, for a certain period, he even signed Futurballa. With his futurist colleagues, he wants to represent the movement and what's faster than a car, the symbol of modernity and the future?! If you look carefully, you can see the time scansion and the dynamism that determines it: these lines, only apparently casual, in reality are really drawing in the air the square shape of a car of the time. And the details are all there: from the driver with his hat that can be seen from the window, to the handlebars, clearly visible in the elegant cars of the early twentieth century. You won't believe it but there is also the shape of the wheel and the curved fender. - Giacomo Balla (1912) Girl running on a balcony Balla is a Futurist painter. Futurism was an artistic movement which started in Milan but was officially recognized and launched in the Manifesto of Futurism published in 1909 in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro. It is very clear here what Futurist artists aimed at representing: dynamism! Luce, Balla’s eight-year-old daughter, is represented while running on a balcony. A common daily scene is analyzed accurately. The painting is composed of a series of repeated images which are different as regards slight variations in inclinations, in order to convey the idea of a body in movement. The vertical lines which mark the space are the banister railings of which you can catch a glimpse while the girl is running. The light blue dress, the reddish braid and the black boots are realized through bright coloured dowels. - Giorgio Morandi (1947) Still life Morandi, from Bologna, is a solitary artist who is famous for his still lifes, objects and bottles that seem almost covered with an opaque paint and all made in the same material and almost in the same color. Starting his studies at the "Accademia delle Belle Arti", he finds inspiration in Picasso and Cézanne but also in the classical artists of Renaissance art. After all, still life originated with Caravaggio! For Morandi, however, still life does not seek a hidden religious meaning, a Memento Mori or a Vanitas, but it is an opportunity to paint objects out of time, identifiable even if rendered in a flat manner. Few shadows, very few colors, the shapes are only sketched but still understandable. In the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi the space is often reduced to a minimum: a supporting surface and a background, neutral and without perspective details. The viewer's attention goes to objects which, rather than dead... Are silent and still. *** The audioguide is aimed to a didactic purpose concerning the Art and Picture Course in the secondary school Trevisani-Scaetta, Gorla, Milan. If you wish to go deeply into the matter, please join my blog: http://proffrana.altervista.org/. You may also find more material on the web site of the institute: https://sites.google.com/site/verobiraghi/ . If you are keen on art, or just have to study it in spite of yourself, you are invited to enter my channel! If you have an Android device, enjoy yourself going over the Art History Lessons again and the Quiz Game you can find on Google Play, my nickname is "proffrana". A App GAM will be available by the end of this school year (2018/19). #proffrana #gam #art
Playlist GAM En: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOaeMwhTX1llPjDNus6mGOYLonHFgmx6Q Audioguide Modern Art Gallery Milan GAM - Open the description to read the texts - --------------------------------------------------------------- GAM En (2ndFloor) Room - 9 - (old IX) --------------------------------------------------------------- - Umberto Boccioni (1907) Portrait of the Mother Boccioni is an exponent of Futurist painting but in this work he presents us a classic subject: the portrait of an elderly woman, certainly not in movement. This portrait, one of the many done to his mother, in fact belongs to the first artistic phase of Boccioni, the one still tied to the divisionist and symbolist style. In fact, the publication in the newspaper Le Figarò of Paris, of the Futurist Manifesto, dates back to two years after the realization of this work. The subject is decentralized with an evident photographic cut that eliminates the upper part of the head, thus making the face itself even more evident. The calm and thoughtful look, the hair and the dress, dark and severe, are rendered with rapid and ample brushstrokes. The light defines the volumes illuminating the face that stands out against the background, undefined, and darker. - Giacomo Balla (1913) Car speed This oil on canvas was painted by Giacomo Balla in 1913 and represents the speed of a racing car. Balla is a futurist painter, as it is clearly stated in the Futurist Manifesto, and, for a certain period, he even signed Futurballa. With his futurist colleagues, he wants to represent the movement and what's faster than a car, the symbol of modernity and the future?! If you look carefully, you can see the time scansion and the dynamism that determines it: these lines, only apparently casual, in reality are really drawing in the air the square shape of a car of the time. And the details are all there: from the driver with his hat that can be seen from the window, to the handlebars, clearly visible in the elegant cars of the early twentieth century. You won't believe it but there is also the shape of the wheel and the curved fender. - Giacomo Balla (1912) Girl running on a balcony Balla is a Futurist painter. Futurism was an artistic movement which started in Milan but was officially recognized and launched in the Manifesto of Futurism published in 1909 in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro. It is very clear here what Futurist artists aimed at representing: dynamism! Luce, Balla’s eight-year-old daughter, is represented while running on a balcony. A common daily scene is analyzed accurately. The painting is composed of a series of repeated images which are different as regards slight variations in inclinations, in order to convey the idea of a body in movement. The vertical lines which mark the space are the banister railings of which you can catch a glimpse while the girl is running. The light blue dress, the reddish braid and the black boots are realized through bright coloured dowels. - Giorgio Morandi (1947) Still life Morandi, from Bologna, is a solitary artist who is famous for his still lifes, objects and bottles that seem almost covered with an opaque paint and all made in the same material and almost in the same color. Starting his studies at the "Accademia delle Belle Arti", he finds inspiration in Picasso and Cézanne but also in the classical artists of Renaissance art. After all, still life originated with Caravaggio! For Morandi, however, still life does not seek a hidden religious meaning, a Memento Mori or a Vanitas, but it is an opportunity to paint objects out of time, identifiable even if rendered in a flat manner. Few shadows, very few colors, the shapes are only sketched but still understandable. In the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi the space is often reduced to a minimum: a supporting surface and a background, neutral and without perspective details. The viewer's attention goes to objects which, rather than dead... Are silent and still. *** The audioguide is aimed to a didactic purpose concerning the Art and Picture Course in the secondary school Trevisani-Scaetta, Gorla, Milan. If you wish to go deeply into the matter, please join my blog: http://proffrana.altervista.org/. You may also find more material on the web site of the institute: https://sites.google.com/site/verobiraghi/ . If you are keen on art, or just have to study it in spite of yourself, you are invited to enter my channel! If you have an Android device, enjoy yourself going over the Art History Lessons again and the Quiz Game you can find on Google Play, my nickname is "proffrana". A App GAM will be available by the end of this school year (2018/19). #proffrana #gam #art