Utopias and Manifestos

A manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.

FUTURISM

1. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.
2. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt.
3. Literature has up to now magnified pensive immobility, ecstasy and slumber. We want to exalt movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist.
4. We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath ... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
5. We want to sing the man at the wheel, the ideal axis of which crosses the earth, itself hurled along its orbit.

The utopian ideal for the futurists movement was to live ion a world where speed and danger were connectedand moved hand in hand. Theirs was to live in a world where science and technology dominated and ruled the style and manner in which the society lived.

DADA

An International word. Just a word, and the word a movement. Very easy to understand ( Dada comes from the dictionary. It is terribly simple. In French it means "hobby horse". In German it means "good-bye", "Get off my back", "Be seeing you sometime". In Romanian: "Yes, indeed, you are right, that's it. But of course, yes, definitely, right". And so forth.). Quite terribly simple. To make of it an artistic tendency must mean that one is anticipating complications. Dada psychology, dada Germany cum indigestion and fog paroxysm, dada literature, dada bourgeoisie, and yourselves, honoured poets, who are always writing with words but never writing the word itself, who are always writing around the actual point. Dada world war without end, dada revolution without beginning, dada, you friends and also-poets, esteemed sirs, manufacturers, and evangelists. Dada Tzara, dada Huelsenbeck, dada m'dada, dada m'dada dada mhm, dada dera dada, dada Hue, dada Tza.

Dadaists were just a rebellious group of artists who believed that there was order in disorder and that it was a responsibility that they undertook to show the world how blinded society is from the on goings in the world. Their utopian ideal was to live in a informative and open world with no social order.

DE STIJL

1.  There is an old and new consciousness of time.
2. The old is connected with the individual.
3. The new is connected with the universal.
4. The struggle of the individual against the universal is revealing itself in the world-war as well as in the art of the present day.
5.  The war is destroying the old world with its contents: individual domination in every state.
6.  The new art has brought forward what the new consciousness of time contains: a balance between the universal and the individual.
7.  The new consciousness is prepared to realise the internal life as well as the external life.
8.  Traditions, dogmas and the domination of the individual are opposed to this realisation.

A utopian ideal for the De Stijl movement artists was a world where the old was done and the new was to be ushered in with a code where the form was determined by the function of the object.

'The Source' is a magazine that covers hip hop, music, politics, and culture The magazine mainly focuses on the hip-hop culture which is dominated by African Americans and thus their likes and interests are expressed in this magazine.There is a general theme of how a member of the "black" community in the USA should appear and express themselves. Fashion is a big theme that is represented, aesthetic material such as gold chains and gold teeth. The reader is led to believe that immense wealth and success is achieved through hip-hop and once the goal is achieved one should adorn themselves in such clad.

Today's society is heavily linked on social media and express their views online and this has made the world a much smaller place. People post about war, love, money, being young and political matters e.t.c. The modern man/woman believe in technology heavily and rely on it with the same effort. Societies moral ground has been lost, and the youth are now praising the use of drugs and alcohol all in the excuse that they live once and experience is the best teacher.

Contemporary utopia I fell is a place where their is ultimate freedom to satisfy curiosity without being judged and pointed fingers at, a place where everyone has a fair opportunity to discover themselves and be successful and financially stable.

My personal manifesto states that we should live in a world where design should be approached with the function dictating the form of the object. A simplistic, minimalistic style is the utopia I want to live in. Minimalism in art will allow the viewer to be able to comprehend the design easily and quicker. The artist will also be more in control of the artwork and apply their creativity and be able to push themselves to come up with something that is visually appealing as well.
The world is filled with various cultures and lifestyles, if all these are applied in a minimalist manner then design and art as a whole will be more universal and open to everyone.
1. The artist should convey and be able to express themselves.
2. The artist must approach the composition in a function follows form view.
3. The artists should be conceptual and factual.
4. The artists should also approach the work with an open mind and let the function dictate.