Aeropittura vs Italian Futurism
アエロピットゥーラ / イタリア未来派
Aeropittura comes from Italian Avant-garde and Italian Futurism from Avant-garde. Both are read here as style. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Aeropittura
The late development of Italian Futurism, which declared the view from an aircraft to be the condition of painting. Plunging perspective, whirling cloud and an earth that turns over fix the sensation of speed and altitude on the canvas. A rare case of a style made out of the height of the viewpoint.
Italian Futurism
Converts speed, noise and shock into the size and trajectory of letters, setting the quiet page in motion.
| Aeropittura | Italian Futurism | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1929–1939 | 1909–1940s |
| Family | Italian Avant-garde | Avant-garde |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Plunging perspective / Whirling cloud and atmosphere / Ground inverted and rotating / Colour suggesting metallic sheen | Words-in-freedom / Radiating type / Onomatopoeia / Extreme jumps in scale |
| Best used for | Aviation, aerospace and mobility work where the brief is the sensation of flight rather than the machine that produces it · Title sequences and transitions built on a diving, rolling camera, for which this painting is effectively a storyboard | Converting sound and speed into still images · Controlled explosions for titles and announcements |
| Type | Letters shrunk along the perspective and tilted together with the ground | Treat differing weights, widths and angles as volume |
| Composition | Set the horizon tilted or overturned and run the vortex through the centre | Fix one point of impact; radiate and accelerate the words |
| Material | Cool colours keyed to a metallic sheen, with streaks of cloud white through them | Black and off-white with one warning color |
| Caution | Simply photographing a landscape from above: the style is not the aerial view but the body's disorientation within it, which requires the horizon to be taken away. | Never split the movement's innovation from its embrace of war and Fascism; handle it critically. |