This particular Italian art movement took speed, technology, and modernity as their inspirations.
Glorifying the war and the machine-age; Favouring the growth of Fascism; Futurism is the portrayal of dynamic character in the 20th century.
Members of the Futurism movement, were committed to all the news things of the world, wished to destroy the older forms of our cultures. This was so they could "flaunt" the beauty of modern life, for example; Machines , violence, speed, and change!
Most Futurists, worked within traditional art media's - sculpting, painting, and in a range of electric styles, inspired by Post-Impressionism. Although they did adopt some architectural aspects.
Nonetheless, Futurists were all about publicizing their own ideas and embracing popular media with new technologies.
Fascinated by the problems represented by modern experience;
Futurists strived to create masterpieces, that evoked all sorts of sensations - that were not even visible to the eye itself. At it's best, Futurism excites the mind with noises, heat and even the smell of metropolis.
The best example of this is 'The City Rises' by Umberto Boccioni.
'The City Rises' is to be known as the first Futurist painting.
Umberto portrays the construction of a modern city, with the use of many bright and vigorous colours. The painting also illustrates, chaos and movement - resembling a war.
These too, highlight movement, change, and velocity.
The Futurists created many manifesto's, such as:
- The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, by F.T. Marinetti
(Paris) Le Figaro, February 20, 1909. (Here’s one alternative translation; and here’s another, this one translated as The Joy of Mechanical Force) - The Manifesto of the Futurist Painters, by Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, and Gino Severini
(Milan) Poesia, February 11, 1910. - Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting, by Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, and Gino Severini
(Milan) Poesia, April 11, 1910.
These are just a few to speak of. There are many more to look into, if your interested.
Website: http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/
The manifesto, I would like to talk about is the 'Manifesto of Futurism'.
Written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the autumn of 1908.
Written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the autumn of 1908.
This particular manifesto, is said to be influenced by 20th century events. However this was published well before the 20th century and therefore cannot be inspired by the time or events during. For example, the Russian Revolutions of 1917 were the first of the sort "described" by article 11, yet the first of those occurred eight years after the Manifesto's publication.
Quick fact:
Futurists believed that war was the leader of progression and positive change.
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