art manifesto
Movement's founding statement
An art manifesto is a public declaration by artists or an artistic movement stating their principles, intentions, or demands.
Manifestos announce breaks from tradition and stake claims for new aesthetic territory: The Futurist Manifesto of 1909 celebrated speed and technology.
The form flourished in early twentieth-century avant-garde movements—Dadaism, Surrealism, Constructivism—and remains a vehicle for artistic provocation.
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- FuturismArt glorifying technology and speed
- VorticismBritish geometric modernist movement
- art movementPeriod-bound aesthetic tendency
- polemicAggressive argumentative discourse
suprematism · Modernism · Surrealism · Dadaism · Breton · avant-garde · call to arms · proclamation · anti-art · shock value · declaration · Bauhaus · Abstract Expressionism · Minimalism · Romanticism · collective · revolutionary · utopia
- Modern Artcubism, Cubism, Fauvism, dadaism, Dadaism
- art criticismart criticism, review, art critic, critique, analysis
- De StijlPiet Mondrian, Mondrian, primary colors, black lines, Utrecht
art manifestotraditional craftsmanship
Skilled handwork preserving old methods