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Futuris M: Beahtriz Loren Lee Ratac

The document provides information about the Futurism artistic movement through four sections: 1) It defines Futurism as an early 20th century movement that celebrated modern technology, speed, and dynamic energy. 2) It discusses the history of Futurism, including how the movement originated from Filippo Marinetti's 1909 manifesto glorifying speed and machines. 3) It outlines characteristics of Futurism like using techniques to express speed and motion such as blurring and repetition of forms. 4) It presents some iconic Futurist paintings and their artists, including Balla's "Dynamism of a Dog" capturing motion and Boccioni's "Unique Forms of

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Futuris M: Beahtriz Loren Lee Ratac

The document provides information about the Futurism artistic movement through four sections: 1) It defines Futurism as an early 20th century movement that celebrated modern technology, speed, and dynamic energy. 2) It discusses the history of Futurism, including how the movement originated from Filippo Marinetti's 1909 manifesto glorifying speed and machines. 3) It outlines characteristics of Futurism like using techniques to express speed and motion such as blurring and repetition of forms. 4) It presents some iconic Futurist paintings and their artists, including Balla's "Dynamism of a Dog" capturing motion and Boccioni's "Unique Forms of

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Futuris

m
Beahtriz Loren Lee Ratac
“We declare… a new beauty, the
beauty of speed. A racing motor car…
is more beautiful than the Victory of
Samothrace..”

- Futurist Manifesto
CONTENTS OF THIS PRESENTATION

Definition of
01
Futurism
History of
02 Futurism
Characteristic of
03
Futurism
Paintings & Painters of
04
Futurism
Definition of Futurism
1. According to Merriam-Webster:

 Futurism is a movement in art, music, and literature begun in Italy about 1909
and marked especially by an effort to give formal expression to the dynamic
energy and movement of mechanical processes.

 Futurism is a a point of view that finds meaning or fulfillment in the future


rather than in the past or present.

2. According to Wikipedia:

 Futurism was an artistic and social that originated in Italy in the early 20th


century. It emphasized speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as
the car, the airplane, and the industrial city.
History of Futurism
Futurism, Italian Futurismo, Russian Futurizm, early 20th-century artistic movement centered in
Italy that emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change,
and restlessness of modern life. During the second decade of the 20th century, the movement’s
influence radiated outward across most of Europe, most significantly to the Russian avant-garde. The
most-significant results of the movement were in the visual arts and poetry.

Futurism was first announced on February 20, 1909, when the Paris newspaper Le Figaro
published a manifesto by the Italian poet and editor Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Marinetti coined the
word Futurism to reflect his goal of discarding the art of the past and celebrating change, originality,
and innovation in culture and society. Marinetti’s manifesto glorified the new technology of the
automobile and the beauty of its speed, power, and movement. Exalting violence and conflict, he
called for the sweeping repudiation of traditional values and the destruction of cultural institutions
such as museums and libraries. The manifesto’s rhetoric was passionately bombastic; its aggressive
tone was purposely intended to inspire public anger and arouse controversy.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2,
1944)

Flippo Tommaso Marinetti (Emilio Angelo Carlo


Marinetti) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and
founder of the Futurist movement. He was associated
with the utopian and Symbolist artistic and literary
community Abbaye de Créteil between 1907 and 1908.
Marinetti is best known as the author of the first
Futurist Manifesto, which was written and published in
1909.
Characteristic of Futurism
 Futurists developed techniques in order to express speed and motion.

 Blurring and Repetition

 Use of lines of force (Adapted from Cubism)

 Breaking down light and colour into a series of stippled dots and stripes and fracturing the picture plane
into segments (Adapted from Divisionism – style of Neo-Impressionism)
Paintings & Painters
of Futurism
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash -
Giacomo Balla (1912)

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash is Balla’s best-


known work, and shows a dachshund on a leash
and the feet of the lady walking it in rapid motion.
Balla achieved this motion by blurring and
multiplication of their legs and feet.
Giacomo Balla (July 18, 1871 – March 1,
1958)

Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter, art teacher


and poet best known as a key proponent of
Futurism. In his paintings he depicted light,
movement and speed. He was concerned with
expressing movement in his works, but unlike
other leading futurists he was not interested in
machines or violence with his works tending
towards the witty and whimsical.
Dancer in Pigalle - Gino Serevini
(1912)

Gino Severini’s dancer is depicted in the centre of


the painting, and is composed of dynamic intersecting
lines and swirling fabric. Concentric circles lead
outwards to the edges of the painting, and each circular
layer contains fragmentary images of musicians,
instruments and audience members. This is meant to
capture the essence and dynamism of the performance.
Gino Serevini (April 7, 1883 – February 26,
1966)

Gino Serevini was an Italian painter and a leading


member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life
he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was
associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order"
in the decade after the First World War. During his
career he worked in a variety of media, including mosaic
and fresco. He showed his work at major exhibitions,
including the Rome Quadrennial, and won art prizes
from major institutions.
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space -
Umberto Boccioni
(1913)

Arguable the most iconic Futurist artwork ever


made, Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of
Continuity in Space is a “Cubo-Futurist” figure
striding in forward motion. The figure’s powerful
legs seem to be marching ahead, carved by forces
such as wind and speed. This modern-man machine
can be read as an allegory for Italy’s quest to define
itself as a modern nation.
Umberto Boccioni (October 19, 1882 – August 17,
1916)

Umberto Boccioni was an influential Italian painter and


sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of
the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures.
Despite his short life, his approach to the dynamism of
form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists
long after his death.
New City - Antonio Sant'Elia
(1914)
This image is part of Sant'Elia's design for a new city
and this reflects the architect's ideas of modernity. He
expressed these in The Manifesto of Futurist
Architecture in 1914, writing that "We must invent and
rebuild our Futurist city like an immense and
tumultuous shipyard, active, mobile, and everywhere
dynamic, and the Futurist house like a gigantic
machine". In this part of the design, elevators can be
seen ascending the façade of the building, and modern
modes of transportation, highways and trains, run
alongside and into the complex. The building itself is
multi-leveled and as well as more traditional vertical
lines it is composed of elliptical and diagonal lines, which
Sant'Elia wrote were "dynamic by their very nature".
Antonio Sant'Elia (April 30, 1888 – October 10,
1916)

Antonio Sant'Elia was an Italian architect and a key


member of the Futurist movement in architecture. He
left behind almost no completed works of architecture
and is primarily remembered for his bold sketches and
influence on modern architecture.
Thank you.

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