纽约讯 现代生活的节律：英国版画1914-1939，这是首次在美国展出特别是意大利未来派的现代艺术运动，英国版画复制来自第一次世界大战爆发到二战开始这段时间，2008年10月23日开始在纽约大都会博物馆开幕。共有14位艺术家的100多件原创作品生动的反映了现代生活。

　　现代生活的节律将聚焦1914-1939这一时期欧洲巨大的社会、经济和政治变动。展览共有8个主题：旋涡主义画派和抽象艺术（在20世纪早期英国短期的艺术运动）；世界大战对英国版画的影响；速度与运动；都市生活／都市动力；体育运动；工业和劳工；娱乐休闲；自然。展览将聚焦由格罗夫纳（Grosvenor）现代艺术学校画家空前数量的作品，以其丰富的色彩和几何图案著称。

Dynamic Exhibition of Modern British Prints on View at Metropolitan Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939, the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the impact of modern artistic movements – especially Italian Futurism – on British printmaking from the outbreak of World War I to the beginning of World War II, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning September 23, 2008. Featuring the work of 14 artists, Rhythms of Modern Life will showcase more than 100 prime examples of graphic works that celebrate the vitality and dynamism of modern life.

Rhythms of Modern Life highlights a period of enormous social, economic, and political change in Europe that was reflected in the arts by the advent of abstraction combined with a fascination with mechanized speed. The exhibition will be organized thematically into eight categories: Vorticism and Abstraction (the short-lived, radically modern British art movement of the early 20th century); World War Iand its influence on British printmakers, who created bold, gripping works; and examinations of Speed and Movement, Urban Life/Urban Dynamism, Sport, Industry and Labor, Entertainment and Leisure, and Natural Forces. The exhibition will feature an unprecedented number of works by artists associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, recognized for their richly colored, geometric images. In the 1920s and `30s, members of the Grosvenor School embraced the linocut technique, which will be illustrated in a special display and represented by four original linocut blocks for Sybil Andrews' print Speedway (1934), as well as instruction manuals and linocut tools.

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