Futurism
Futurism
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Content
Introduction
Background information
Cerebration
Futurist Painting
Futurist Sculpture
Artists
Influence
http://arttattler.com/italyvenice.html http://www.mathewadkins.co.uk/article1/ Introduction
What is Futurism?
Futurism was an art movement originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere.
Futurism is a term that may suggest a number of things. For example, when we describle soething as being ‘futuristic’, we mean to convey an idea of scientific and technological advance beyond that which presently exists. The notion of ‘futuristic’ carries with it not only extraordinary technological development but also a complemaentary vision of the mind and body transformed, giving human beings new mental and physical powers. Thus’futuristic’ tends to imply the infinite possibilities of progress for which there are always signs in the present – the futuristic car designs, presented to us today in increasingly sophisticated adverts, conjurt up this world that is yet to come.
Obviously, ‘futurism’ also suggests simply an idea of a segement of time, deriving from the structuring of our experience and language around a tripartite scheme of past, present and future. Nineteenth-and twentieth-century philosophers, writers and artists, from the Pre-Raphaelites and Marcel Proust, through Henri Bergson and Umberto Boccioni, to Jean-Paul Sartre and Francis Bacon have been greatly preoccupied with time.
Background Information
The Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was its founder and most influential personality. He launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published for the first time on 5th February 1909 in La gazzetta dell'Emilia, an article then reproduced in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909. In it Marinetti expressed a passionate loathing of everything old,
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Content
Introduction
Background information
Cerebration
Futurist Painting
Futurist Sculpture
Artists
Influence
http://arttattler.com/italyvenice.html http://www.mathewadkins.co.uk/article1/ Introduction
What is Futurism?
Futurism was an art movement originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere.
Futurism is a term that may suggest a number of things. For example, when we describle soething as being ‘futuristic’, we mean to convey an idea of scientific and technological advance beyond that which presently exists. The notion of ‘futuristic’ carries with it not only extraordinary technological development but also a complemaentary vision of the mind and body transformed, giving human beings new mental and physical powers. Thus’futuristic’ tends to imply the infinite possibilities of progress for which there are always signs in the present – the futuristic car designs, presented to us today in increasingly sophisticated adverts, conjurt up this world that is yet to come.
Obviously, ‘futurism’ also suggests simply an idea of a segement of time, deriving from the structuring of our experience and language around a tripartite scheme of past, present and future. Nineteenth-and twentieth-century philosophers, writers and artists, from the Pre-Raphaelites and Marcel Proust, through Henri Bergson and Umberto Boccioni, to Jean-Paul Sartre and Francis Bacon have been greatly preoccupied with time.
Background Information
The Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was its founder and most influential personality. He launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published for the first time on 5th February 1909 in La gazzetta dell'Emilia, an article then reproduced in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909. In it Marinetti expressed a passionate loathing of everything old,