Men and horses strain with heavy object, large scale, horses exaggerated and dominate
Dissolving lines- movement, man/horse/machine all blended in sense of unity
Background has building site, factories trams etc.
Divisionism- slanting thin strokes, repeated shapes create shift and movemenr 'synthesis of light, work and colour'
Context
Horse link to development of Italy- symbols of force e.g. Munch's 'Galloping Horse'
Marinetti called cars 'snorting beasts', called his car Pegasus'
Technical Manifesto of Furturists- movement through dissolving forms
Ronard's theory of Unaimism, humanity coming together in city
Milan becoming industria; centre of Italy with new industry
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Dix 'Metropolis' (1928)
Description
New Objectivity- unidealised, bright colours, dancing looks cheerful at first
Woman with plumes, makeup etc, prostitutes look clown like, stacked on each other
Soldier on floor, one with no nose/ legs, one with crutches, one on floor
Disorts space like Flemish religious paintings, tilted floor creates anxiety
Political context
Rise of Nazis (Mein Kampf 1925), Weimar government blamed for post WW1, rise of right
Kasnter's 'Fabian' - 'soldiers lying maimed in hovels', Dix haunted by war
Germany in 'political waiting room'- meaningless, jumbled architecture and strange depth
Social context
1920s Berlin rapid growth, American culture e.g. Charleston, some saw as loss of identity
Discrimination towards Jewish and blacks- black man parodied, also associated with jazz
Fashion of flappers, short hair, Vamp figure, influence of actress Marlene Dietrich
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Hopper 'Nighthawks' (1942)
Description
4 people in dinner, brightly lit, men in hats, woman in red and barman- triangular
Don't communicate, sickly green light = unease, segregation from street and the viewer
Mise en scene- sense of narrative never revealed, Jo Hopper- things reduced to essentials
Context
American Realism, linked to Ash Can school, taught by Henri, everyday struggles of people
Anxiety of Depression and just about to enter WW2- alienation of city talked of by Marx
Gerter: 'reproduction of the world around me by means of the wold that is within me'
Influence
Baudelaire and Impressionists e.g. Manet with alienation in city
Film Noir- feature of femme fatale, Hopper inspiration for Psycho and American Beauty
Maltese Falcon film, featured detective and femme fatale, Hemmingway's 'The Killers' - 2 hitmen wait in dinner, Poe's 'Man of the Crowd' with flaneur, Van Gogh's 'Night Cafe'
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