Utopias and Manifesto

Utopians and Manifesto

Manifesto

A document of policy and aims. This document includes beliefs, aims, of an organisation, especially for a political party.

Personal manifesto

A document of one's beliefs, aims, strengths, weaknesses, core values, what you stand for and how you would like to live your life it stands out as a statement of principles and as a call to action or a motivational statement.

5 manifestos of Arts and culture

Futurist manifestos

Marinetti’s Futurist manifesto. First published in the French newspaper Le Figaro in 1909. (Redding, 2010)

Figure 1 Le Figaro

Fortunato Depero’s book Depero futuristic, 1927. The use of typography .

Figure 2 Depero

Two internal pages from Depero Futurista. Bold compositional strength.

Figure 3 DPS Depero Futurista

Dada manifestos

Cover design for Le Coeur a Barbe: Journal Transparent 1922.

Figure 4 Le Coeur Barbe

Fluxus

George Maciunas ‘ Fluxus Manifesto. Broke down the barriers and hierarchy of contemporary culture.

Figure 5 Maciunas Fluxus

Utopian ideals

Utopians perfect the world is uniquely individual. For others, it would be the world with no war nor violence and for others, it would be the world be equality of all races, creed, and genders. Some have considered changing certain political aspects. The dream of making the world perfect has become a part of the human existence where a certain name was given to such an ideal: Utopia.  They wanted to create this peaceful society, especially for the bloodshed. (students, 2006)

Group utopian ideals

Oneida

Established in 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes. He combined the cooperatives movement and the Fourierists and the marriage of the taboo of the Shakers to produce a new Utopian community.

Their perfect world where everybody was married but they rejected monogamy.

Secular Utopias

Common at the end of the 19^th century. This colony served as a model for socialist government.

Anarchist and other Utopians

Members invested in the local sawmill.

The Internet as utopia

At the end of the 20^th century, Utopian communities were given a bad name. the number of faith in technology-based Utopian experiments grew throughout the last half of the century. They split into groups like Sierra Club and Greenpeace. (history, 2003)

Generations

GI Generation

·       Born 1901-1926

·       Children of the WW1 generation and fighters in WW2

·       “Their depression was the great one, their war was the big one, their prosperity was the happy days.

·       They saved the world then build and nation.

·       They are assertive and energetic.

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Mature/silents

·       Born 1927-1945

·       Went through their formative years during an era of suffocating.

·       Korean and Vietman war generation.

·       Marriage is for life

Baby boomers

·       Born 1946-1964.

·       The “me” generation.

·       The rock and roll generation.

·       The first TV generation.

Generation X

·       Born 1965-1980.

·       Entrepreneurial.

·       Very individualistic.

·       Society and thus individuals are envisioned as disposable.

Generation Y/Millennium

·       Born between 1981 and 2000

·       Respect authority.

·       Most of their socialization is from the internet.

Generation Z/Boomlets

·       Born after 2001.

·       With the advent of computers and web based learning.

Generation X and Z can be the most recent generations in the 20^th century. In the industry that we are in is described as individualistic and unique.

Underpinning issues concerning the contemporary youth

As time has progressed the world has had its face share of problems and some of these underpinning issues have become a hot topic in our generation.

For instance sexism in various media's , namely video games in which countless games such as Duke Nukem, Crysis, Super Mario.

In these games the protagonist is a male , Duke Nukem objectifies a woman, and in Super Mario, the princess is always the Damsel in distress.

But recently there are countless games promoting strong female leads to go against this such as Mirrors Edge the new Tomb Raider games, even Call of duty has now added the function to create female characters.

This is one instance of how underpinning issues are being changed by the media in the 21st century.

Facebook will require a day

Utopia's change

As Rinehart explains the changes from the first usage of the word of utopia in 1516 by T. More,I find that it is true the focal points have been adjusted in the definition of a modernistic utopia.

Apart from surface changes in terms of the politics the concept is still the same people want a self-sustaining system without ant external factors affecting this.

Though this being said my version of this would be a system where technology is crucial and crime and poverty are non-existent, every individual is given true freedom and not judged by one another solely being known for character rather than appearances

Our Manifesto

But as we've discussed previously every individual perceives a Utopian society in a different manner.

So whilst there is a framework to support the ideology there is no true definition of a modern utopia.

Our Interpretation of a Modern Manifesto Pertaining to Utopia

1. )Dis World is in need 0f a S0C1eTy dat isnt basd outta grindin 2 get sum bread but insted livin 2 enj0y dem finer thangs.

2.) Ppl need 2 finds da Joy within nt be tryna get it thru da struggle.

3.) Tech shud be one of dem tings dat make lyf eezy nt b used for wrk nd help cr8 dat gud livin.

4.) Tym shuldnt b da focus bt a msrement of le chilled vibes.

5.) lyf is too gr8t and yet pepol try 2 manipulate dat.

6.) Technology is veri helpful but can destry a persons m!nd.

My Manifesto

• The art movement I chose: Surrealism movement (1924-1966).

• I want to unlock the power of imagination, leaving realism behind.

• Imagination and weird things are all about me.

• I chose this movement because it had an impact to break down the hierarchy/importance of the arts. I want to break the way people see art…its not just drawings.
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Surrealism

Do you even have to think? Or does it just flow like spilt milk?

Imagination/Fantasy

• 20^th century avant-garde movement that released the creative potential of the unconscious mind through art and literature.

• Thought by:  Aram Vardazaryan.

 

• Andre Breton defined Surrealism as “psychic”.

• Surrealism is define because it allows me the artist to rely on my own motifs, through my dreams and unconscious mind.

• Grew out of the Dada movement.

• Most influenced by the bizarre imagery and juxtaposition.

• This movement used art to depict the violent political situations, and now it depicts reality, because what I think and imagine all links up to what reality serves me.

• I want to touch minds. Their interest in myth and primitivism(the belief of what is simple and unsophisticated) shaped other movements and the style is influential even today. It influenced me. I think since grade 11.

• Take fantasies, dreams, the inner mind and obviously everything they did had a reason behind it, and present this in a visual way. What do you get? …Elysium.

• Surrealists drew/painted what is in the mind but the most intriguing thing about them is that they put their mind to it, they pay attention to what they do, and they love what they do. 
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• Surrealism is creepy and yet so deep. You only have to look closely to figure them out. You have to look close enough to figure me out but the harder you try the more you dream because youll think I live in a fantasy.

 

Who influenced me?

 

• Santiago Caruso created art that had me questioning myself, so many times.

• He was a fine artist and illustrator.

• He created countless covers for friction books.

• He described himself as a symbolist, who recreates the deformation of reality that human being perceive. He looks deeper to find a new kind of perception.

• He tried to summon a poetic phantom that supplies a wider vision of human, contemplating the beautiful, the frightening, the forgotten in the shadows. The impossible in a gothic style.

• He combined religion, and politics  to reveal another vision of the world with regard to the unconscious, the damned ghosts we've buried and many other aspects of history and philosophy.

• Influenced by William Blake and other symbolists such as Max Klinger.

• The elements of evil, sin, beauty, love and memory inspired him. His poetry explained his art in more detail.

• His artwork is closely related to literature and philosophy.

• He does his artwork as if he was writing a poem, so when you see his art you should read the image as text.

• The medium he used was ink and water colours.

Shanel?

• Shanel is a Graphic designer, a painter and a sister.

• She has created artwork for school and nothing more.

• She describes herself as a symbolist, who sees things differently from their normal state of view. She looks deeper to find a more deeper/new meaning.

•  She doesn’t write poetry, nor songs to explain her art, her mind is her verse, her heart is the rhymes and her art becomes her mix tape. Surrealism.

• Her art is not that “gothic” but it is rarely pure.
• She creates art that is unreal, unthinkable, unsophisticated, beautiful but yet so unconscious.
• She combines nature, beliefs and history to portray different perceptions of the world.
• She creates art that includes things that will never live, (things that have been buried into the mind of normal people of things being possible).
• Influenced by Santiago Caruso.
• The elements of beauty, sin, evil, good, love, hatred, inspired her.
• The medium she uses is pencil, ink and acrylic paint.
• Her artwork is related to her personal life.
• Her best painting is the one she hasn’t done yet.

Escape into life

Styria

La Muerta

The blind eye

 

Manifesto

Philosophies and Principles

• I believe if there's good there's bad.

• Everything has a sign and a meaning.

• I believe that innocence is another word for unreal.

• I believe in guardian angels, and if there's those then there are demons

• My art describes half of my thoughts.

• My hands describe half of my heart.

• I believe in the unreal, the unseen before, the unthought-of…the surrealist.

Purpose

The first art I produce influences the next art to come.

My role is to confuse people, make them ask questions that have no answers.

To inspire those who think being weird is wrong.

I focus on what I feel is right.

My role is to make surrealism the new realism.

My purpose is that my art  comes from the awaken sleep. That’s  how I dream.

 Personality

• Strong with finding meaning.

• I'm a very simple person when it comes to my designs.

• I use simple colours that relate to one another.

• Black…the colour black is solid. I use it as a foundation for my art. To you it might depict death but to me it depicts new life, eg before I was born my eyes were closed I  saw nothing but darkness before I  saw light.
• I'm a deep person, not a philosopher, nor a scientist but a surrealist. All my art has to have meaning or it just remains as art and not mine.
• I'm crazy about the unreal we could go out anytime.
• I'm weird, I know I've been told, I don’t know why either, its just who I am.
• I'm a closed book but that doesn’t mean the cover describes who I am.
• I'm a ball of nerves buy my art is my leader.
• I might look innocent…

My Manifesto

• Confuse people, don’t let them figure you out…why should they?.

• There is purpose and reason and always a sign regarding what you do.

• You don’t just rely on what research gives you, there are dreams and thoughts that need to be compressed.

• Don’t be afraid to put different elements next to each other or morph things, its beauty.

• Using bizarre imagery is nature so as using toilets and calling it art.
• The mind is multi-faceted. It’s the trigger that scares the eyes.
• You don’t need to be understood.
• Every art that you produce has an end, a middle and an apex, use black on the apex who cares…they’ll understand later.
• Fantasy or not its were you dream.
• Naked women with tusks, men with no eyes, angel pregnant with thousands of little worms, a boy with an upside down head with no lips and a little girl with candy in her hands devouring Satan's intestines instead of the candy. Its just my mind.

Bibliography

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•  Corrado, J. (2015, 05 22). Art Profile:Santiago Caruso. Retrieved 08 27, 2016, from dirgemag.com: www.dirgemag.com

• Story, A. (2016, 02 15). Surrealism. Retrieved 08 27, 2016, from m.theartstory.org: www.m.theartstory.org/movement-surrealism.htm

• Linde, S. (2016, 03 25). What is surrealism? Retrieved 08 27, 2016, from Study.com: study.com

• Vardazaryan, A. (2011). Artstation. Retrieved 08 27, 2016, from Artstation.com: www.artstation.com