The City Rises1911, oil on canvas200 x 290.5 cm 

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913 (cast 1931), bronze, 43 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 15 3/4" 

Dynamism of a CarLuigi Russolo1912, oil on canvas

FUTURISM

Early 20th centuryItaly

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Futurism, the context Industrial revolution in Europe-early 1900s Aeroplane-1905 Innovations- electricity, x-rays, radio waves,

automobiles and airplanes Italy represented the past- Renaissance,

Baroque

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913 (cast 1931), bronze, 43 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 15 3/4" 

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Futurism, the movementIn the early 1900s, a group of young and rebellious Italian writers and artists emerged determined to celebrate industrialization. They were frustrated by Italy’s declining status and believed that the “Machine Age” would result in an entirely new world order and even a renewed consciousness. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the ringleader of this group, called the movement Futurism. Its members sought to capture the idea of modernity, the sensations and aesthetics of speed, movement, and industrial development

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Umberto Biocconi

"Let us fling open the figure and let it incorporate within itself whatever may surround it."

Development of a bottle in space, Umberto Boccioni

Elasticity1912, oil on canvas100.06 x 100.06 cm 

Dynamism of the human body 1911, oil on canvas200 x 290.5 cm 

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Luigi Russolo Italian Futurist

 painter and composer

First Noise artist “industrial revolution

had given modern men a greater capacity to appreciate more complex sounds.”

Intonarumori, 1914 Self potrait, Luigi Russolo

Music, 1911Luigi Rossolo

The revolt, 1911Luigi Russolo

Perfume1912, oil on canvas

Giacomo Balla

Divisionism, painting with divided rather than mixed color and breaking the painted surface into a field of stippled dots and stripes.

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Gino Severini

Italian Futurist painter and composer

Influenced by Balla’s Divisionism

Transitioned to synthetic cubism

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913 (cast 1931), bronze, 43 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 15 3/4" 

Simultaniety of Centrifugal and

Centripedal Groups

The boulevard, 1911

Ballerina in blueGino Serverini

Armoured train in actionGino Serverini

The cyclist, Gino Severini

Carlo carraAnarchist Italian irredentist

FascistMotion and feeling(futurist)Form and stillness(cubist)

Carrà soon began creating still lifes in a style he, along with Giorgio de Chirico, called "metaphysical painting

Interventionist Demonstration, 1914. Tempera and collage on cardboard, 38.5 x 30 cm

Carlo Carra, 1912, Jolts in a cab

Carlo Carra, 1912, Concurrency, Woman on the Balcony

La Musa MetafisicaCarlo Carra, 1912

Thanks.

Simultaneous visionsUmberto Biocconi

Surabhi BhatnagarNational Institute of Design