An Italian movement in art and literature catalyzed by a 1909 manifesto published in a newspaper by Italian poet F. T. Marinetti. The text celebrated new technology and modernization while advocating for a violent and decisive break from the past. Working in the years just before World War I, the Futurists portrayed their subjects—often humans, machines, and vehicles in motion—with fragmented forms and surfaces that evoke the energy and dynamism of urban life in the early 20th century.
Futurism
6 examples
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Carlo Carrà Funeral of the Anarchist Galli 1910-11
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Umberto Boccioni Muscular Dynamism 1913
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Giacomo Balla Swifts: Paths of Movement + Dynamic Sequences 1913
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Umberto Boccioni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913 (cast 1931 or 1934)
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Gino Severini Armored Train in Action 1915
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Vive la France 1914–15