The artists associated with Cubism were interested in creating new methods of representation. In depicting the world around them, these artists included multiple viewpoints, distorted forms, and ambiguous spatial relationships in their artworks.

Artists of the early twentieth century were deeply affected the rapid developments in technology, such as aviation and mechanical industrialization, and made such innovations the subjects of many of their artworks, creating new forms of representation.

The artists in this lesson were interested in depicting the sensation of motion, inspired by advanced photographic techniques and other new forms of technology and transportation.

Artists have used their work for social and political commentary—protesting, dissenting, questioning, and depicting the world around them—over the last century. The Futurist movement was aggressively political and glorified war as a way of obtaining national supremacy for Italy.