The authors of the three readings this week have envisaged that the future art, design and technology will develop in a new direction and will bring great changes to the world. The three authors are founders of Futurism, Suprematism and Constructivism. Their new ideas provide different directions for the development of art and contribute to the development of art.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is the founder of the concept of futurism. In “the Futurist Manifesto”, he advocated to fight against old and evil ideas, resist all things of the old era, and people should have the courage to pursue innovation and scientific and technological progress. El Lissitzky is one of the founders of Suprematism. In “our book”, he discussed that if a new invention is born in a certain aspect, the invention will achieve the highest level of achievement in art, even if the invention may be very crude and primitive from the present point of view. In addition, he also wrote in the book that new inventions will replace old inventions. When an invention is born, people’s attention will be attracted. As the invention is used by more and more people and can no longer meet people’s needs, a new invention will be born to share the pressure of the old invention. Aleksandr Rodchenko is one of the founders of structuralism. He discussed in “who we are” that artists can be engineers and engineers can also be artists. He believes that artists or engineers should not only look at the appearance of things like ordinary people, but look at the real essence of things beyond the appearance in order to better create art.
The articles of the three authors have well explained their views on art, but Filippo Tommaso Marinetti advocates fighting everything in the form of violence in “the Futurist Manifesto”, which I don’t agree with very much, because this era is different from the past. Violence will not change art, but will only bring more violence and death.