futurism

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Futurism

Italy


glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city

was largely an italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere

practiced in every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, urban design, theatre, film, fashion, literature, music, arhitecture, ect.


Key figures of the movement

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Umberto Boccioni

Carlo Carra Gino Severini Giacomo Balla Antonio Sant’Elia Tulio Crali Luigi Russolo


Filippo Tommaso MarinettiFuturist Manifesto

5 February 1909 in La gazzetta dell'Emilia

an article then reproduced in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909

He was soon joined by the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and the composer Luigi Russolo


Umberto Boccioni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

Manifesto of Futurist Painters by by Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini (1910)


Umberto BoccioniThe City Rises, 1910


Umberto BoccioniThe Street Enters the House(La Strada Entra Nella Casa), 1911


Umberto BoccioniThe States of Mind. The Farewells, 1911


Umberto BoccioniElastic, 1912


Umberto BoccioniSynthèse du dynamisme humain

(Synthesis of Human Dynamism), 1913sculpture destroyed


Carlo CarràFuneral of the Anarchist Galli, 1911


Gino SeveriniDynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, 1912


Antonio Sant'EliaA perspective drawing, 1914


Antonio Sant'Elia Perspective drawing from La Città Nuova, 1914

futurism

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