Futuristic flowers. An artificial botanical proposal
Abstract
This article explores the artificial nature and flowers of Italian futurism. With the crisis created by the First World War, the interests of the avant-garde were geared towards an imaginative totality that exceeded the traditional artistic disciplines and aspired to recreate the world under a new lens through which flowers would be another field of intervention. Artificial flowers were created by Giacomo Balla as a variant of his nature research from painting to the object flower. Fortunato Depero projected a scenario of magical flora, a model that he developed in other plastic works. Under the influence of these and the canonical manifestos, Fedele Azari theorized about artificial flora and contemporary smells. In the thirties, Oswaldo Bot reinterpreted the manifesto of Azari by drawing ninety flowers that transcended the artistic to reach the psychological. The last years are a retour à l'ordre in which futuristic flowers have maintained a balance between futuristic praxis and fictitious classicism.
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