Multimedia as an art form

Multimedia is media that uses a combination of different content forms. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity [hyperlinks] content forms.

Multimedia unlike standard art, aims to engage, involve, suprise and intrest the viewer.

There are many forms of multimedia art forms. examples include games such as call of duty; modern warfare two. the games hs a sence of involvement and engroses the gamer from start to finish.

scenes from the interactive game call of duty modern warefare 2

Other types of mulitimedia include the famous Ipod collection. this is a piece of multimedia as it alows you to scroll across and play audio, video, search the net, watch tv shows and play game. all this is available at the touch of you finger upon the touch screen sensitve device.

art, devices and objects that allow you to interact with them are all seen as multimedia.

Manifesto! Modern art and big ideas

The Futurists admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the airplane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature, and they were passionate nationalists. They repudiated the cult of the past and all imitation, praised originality, "however daring, however violent”.

Carlo Carrà (February 11, 1881—April 13, 1966) was an italian painter a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art. He was long a teacher in the city of Milan.

Interventionist Demonstration, 1914 by Carlo Carrà

This composition was inspired by Carrà's sighting of leaflets dropped from an airplane as they fluttered down over the Piazza del Duomo.

what i can see from this image is that Carra is using to some extent the idea of a cubist painters style. the composition starts in the middle and moves outward giving an impression of an explosion, loud noise r sound perhaps.

The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli 1911

The subject of the work is the funeral of Italian anarchistAngelo Galli, killed by police during a general strike in 1904. The Italian State feared that the funeral would become a de facto political demonstration and refused the mourning anarchists entrance into the cemetery itself. When anarchists resisted, the police responded with force and a violent scuffle ensued. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funeral_of_the_Anarchist_Galli)

in this piece by carra i can see that with just a few colours and paint he embodies so much tension stress and excitement. looking at this painting you get the feeling that something including much contraversy is happening. a fight or violence.

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement and artistic style that was founded in 1924 by André Breton. Surrealism style uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art without the intention of logical plainess. The movement started in Europe, centered in Paris, and attracted many of the members of the Dada community. Influenced by the psychoanalytical work of Freud and Jung, there are similarities between the Surrealist movement and the Symbolist movement of the late 19th century.

Breton argued that rational thought was at fault for the world’s problems and that change could only come about through the subconscious mind. He eventually wrote three Surrealist Manifestos and based the movement on the idea that ordinary things, such as objects, symbols, and images could have important meaning when created and viewed with the subconscious.

Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter that understood how the media worked and used it to its full potential. Dali is associated with the Surrealist art movement. Dali was a prolific artist, he created more than 1500 paintings during his life time.



This very famous painting by salvidor Dali is called The Persistence of Memory. it is an amazing piece which symbolises many things. what i understand is that he is trying to depict time and how it can be twisted, slowed down and how prehaps time is intepreted different to everyone. i love this painting.