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1. Futurism
Futurismwas an artmovementthat
originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It
was largely an Italian phenomenon, though
there were parallel movements in Russia,
England and elsewhere.

2. •The Italian writer Filippo
Tommaso Marinettiwas its
founder and most influential
personality.
•The Futurists admired speed,
technology, youth and
violence, the car, the airplane
and the industrial city, all that
represented the
technological triumph of
humanity over nature
•The Futurists practiced in
every medium of art,
including painting, sculpture,
ceramics, graphic design,
industrial design, interior
design, theatre, film, fashion,
textiles, literature, music,
architecture
•Unique Form of
Continuity in Space
Umberto Boccioni, 1913

3. Visioni simultanee•Umberto
Boccioni(19
October1882–17
August1916) was
a painter and a
sculptor. Like other
Futurists, his work
centered on the
portrayal of
movement
(dynamism),
speed, and
technology

4. •Unique Forms of Continuity in
Spaceis a bronzeFuturist
sculpture by Umberto Boccioni.
It is seen as an expression of
movement and fluidity. Boccioni
rejected traditional sculpture
and depictions to create this
piece and it is seen as a
masterpieceof Futurism.
•[The Futurist movement was
striving to portray speed and
forceful dynamismin their art
•a human-like figure seemingly
flying or gliding through air. A
clinging drapery whips back
around his legs, giving the
sculpture an aerodynamicand
fluid form. Instead of a
traditional pedestal, the figure is
only bound to the ground by two
blocks at his feet. The figure is
also armless and without a
discernibly real face.

5. 'States of Mind III; Those Who Stay'

6. The City Rises

7. Carlo Carrà(February 11, 1881—April 13, 1966) was an Italianpainter,
a leading figure of the Futuristmovement that flourished in Italy during
the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many paintings, he
wrote a number of books concerning art. He was long a teacher in the
city of Milan.
•He is best known for his 1911
futurist work, The Funeral of
the Anarchist Galli. Carrà was
indeed an anarchist as a
young man but, along with
many other Futurists, later held
more reactionarypolitical
views
•The Engineer's Loverwas
finished during the
metaphysicalphase of the
artist (1921).

8. •Futurist painters adopted the
methods of the Cubists. Cubism
offered them a means of
analysing energy in paintings and
expressing dynamism.
•They often painted modern urban
scenes. Carrà's Funeral of the
Anarchist Galli(1910-11) is a
large canvas representing events
that the artist had himself been
involved in in 1904. The action of
a police attack and riot is
rendered energetically with
diagonals and broken planes.
•His work embodies the tension
and chaos of the scene: the
movement of the bodies, the
clashing of anarchists and police,
the black flagsflying in the air

9. •Giacomo Balla(July 18,
1871–March 1, 1958)
was an Italian painter.
Influenced by Filippo
Tommaso Marinetti,
Giacomo Balla adopted
the Futurismstyle,
creating a pictorial
depiction of light,
movement and speed. He
was signatory to the
Futurist Manifestoin 1910
and began designing and
painting Futurist furniture

10. •He also taught
Umberto Boccioni. In
painting, his new
style is demonstrated
in the 1912 work titled
Dynamism of a Dog
on a Leash. Seen
here is his 1914 work
titled Abstract Speed
+ Sound
•In 1914, he also
began sculpting and
the following year
created perhaps his
best known sculpture
called Boccioni's Fist.

11. Marcel Duchamp
•Duchamp's first work to
provoke significant
controversy was Nude
Descending a Staircase,
(1912). The painting
depicts the mechanistic
motion of a nude, with
superimposed facets,
similar to motion pictures.
It shows elements of both
the fragmentation and
synthesis of the Cubists,
and the movement and
dynamism of the
Futurists.