Rob Shearer is currently attending the University of Colorado at Denver. He is double majoring in Writing/Directing and English with an emphasis on Film Studies, while getting a minor in Art History. He has directed both film and theater, and is currently finishing his Production 3 film titled 3 Bodies

FILM THEORY & CRITICISM

Futurism: Art's Reaction to the Cinema

Very rarely does the world of art and film intersect. Obviously movies draw inspiration from the classic paintings of Art History (for example, Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven draws heavily from the visual style of the paintings of Andrew Wyeth.) Yet, never have these two mediums built off of one another, or responded to each other. However, there was one same moment in the history of art where an entire movement was created as a reaction to film, and that was Futurism. Read on...