The Futurist School of Painting: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 9
Amongst the events covered in the April 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, was the Paris and London Exhibitions of “Futurist” Paintings. This art exhibition (as many large art exhibits were) was targeted for parody by cartoonists, who historically both admired the fine artists (and frequently had attempted, but failed, to be one of them), and resented how art critics and academies looked down upon cartooning. Parodying “higher” art gave cartoonists a chance to take the art world’s pretensions, down a few pegs.
Below, on the right-hand page, French cartoonists from Journal Amusant and Le Rire, take aim, focusing more on the name “Futurist”, than on the art style itself. To give Cartoons‘ readers an idea of what the paintings looked like, two b&w examples were shown.
Above, a better, color repro of one of the examples — Mind-Shaking Laughter, 1911, by Umberto Boccioni.
Click on the above & below pictures, to view them in greater detail.
Below, a better repro of the other example — Leaving the Theater, 1910-11, by Carlo Carrà.
LeRire Journal Amusant
— Doug
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