On Monday 17th of June, the class of 3° Italian students went to the Estorik collection in Islington.
The visit consisted in a presentation in Italian of some of the permanent collection on Futurismo and a workshop on one of the themes of the collection: painting and words (libertà e parole).
The students interacted beautifully with Luca, our art expert in the gallery and produced a final creative work using various technique like collage and the “onomathopeic sounds”.
The Estorick Collection brings together some of the finest and most important works created by Italian artists during the first half of the twentieth century, and is Britain’s only museum devoted to modern Italian art.
It is perhaps best known for its outstanding core of Futurist works. Founded in 1909 by the poet F. T. Marinetti, Futurism was Italy’s most significant contribution to twentieth-century European culture. Marinetti wanted to break with the oppressive weight of Italy’s cultural heritage and develop an aesthetic based on modern life and technology, particularly speed and the machine.
His impassioned polemic immediately attracted the support of the young Milanese painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà and Luigi Russolo, who wanted to extend Marinetti’s ideas to the visual arts.
They were joined by the painters Gino Severini and Giacomo Balla, and together these artists represented Futurism’s first phase.
The acknowledged Futurist masterpieces of the Collection are drawn from this pioneering period (1909-16) and include Boccioni’s Modern Idol, Carrà’s Leaving the Theatre, Russolo’s Music, Severini’s The Boulevard and Balla’s The Hand of the Violinist.
(Article proposé par Mme Rossella IALENTI, Professeur d'italien et Promoteur de Théâtre en italien)
On Monday 17th of June, the class of 3° Italian students went to the Estorik collection in Islington.
The visit consisted in a presentation in Italian of some of the permanent collection on Futurismo and a workshop on one of the themes of the collection: painting and words (libertà e parole).
The students interacted beautifully with Luca, our art expert in the gallery and produced a final creative work using various technique like collage and the “onomathopeic sounds”.
The Estorick Collection brings together some of the finest and most important works created by Italian artists during the first half of the twentieth century, and is Britain’s only museum devoted to modern Italian art.
It is perhaps best known for its outstanding core of Futurist works. Founded in 1909 by the poet F. T. Marinetti, Futurism was Italy’s most significant contribution to twentieth-century European culture. Marinetti wanted to break with the oppressive weight of Italy’s cultural heritage and develop an aesthetic based on modern life and technology, particularly speed and the machine.
His impassioned polemic immediately attracted the support of the young Milanese painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà and Luigi Russolo, who wanted to extend Marinetti’s ideas to the visual arts.
They were joined by the painters Gino Severini and Giacomo Balla, and together these artists represented Futurism’s first phase.
The acknowledged Futurist masterpieces of the Collection are drawn from this pioneering period (1909-16) and include Boccioni’s Modern Idol, Carrà’s Leaving the Theatre, Russolo’s Music, Severini’s The Boulevard and Balla’s The Hand of the Violinist.
(Article proposé par Mme Rossella IALENTI, Professeur d'italien et Promoteur de Théâtre en italien)