Futurism:
The Art Movement that Looked to the future and Never Looked Back
Here
are the main points my essay will take:
References
will be put at the end of the essay in the actual thing. The
references for people are wikipedia for now, but will be changed to
appropriate websites when I research more into the people behind
Futurism.
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The origins of the movement:
+Italy
1909, The main creator was Filippo
Tommaso Marinetti.
(http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/365371/Filippo-Tommaso-Marinetti)
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Marinetti said the phrase came from his emphasis on discarding what
he conceived to be the static and irrelevant art of the past and
celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and
society. (http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/futurism/)
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He wrote the Futurist Manifesto
(http://masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html)
which notes down the aspects of the movement.
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The manifesto was first published on 5th February 1909.
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Artists Umberto
Boccioni, Carlo
Carrà , Giacomo
Balla, Gino
Severini and the composer Luigi
Russolo. Joined Martinetti soon after the manifesto was
p[ublished a second time on the 20th February 1909.
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What the movement meant:
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Marinetti hated things which were old and admired new technologies
such as cars planes, trains and machinery in general. This was the
main influence of futurism.
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Futurist Architechture:
+ Antonio
Sant'Elia
was the most famous futurist architect -
Perspective
drawing from La
Città Nuova,
1914.
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Futurist Architecture has extra features which seem useless but add
to the aesthetic appeal of the building.
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Art movements influenced by Futurism:
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Art Deco: Futurism forms derived chiefly from Cubism were used
to represent rapid movements and dynamic motion; showing hostility to
traditional forms of expression
(http://www.richeast.org/htwm/artists/AC/artdeco.html)
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Constructivism: This movement came around the Russian Communist
revolution, where radical change was seen as necessary and so,
constructivism took some inspiration from futurism to highlight
modern life at the time.
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Surrealism & Dada: Both of these movements came about and were
popular at arround the same time as futurism. As these movements had
influence over a lot of Europe, it was obvious that these movements
would meet and take inspiration from one another. These movements
where French, whereas Futurism was Italian, being so close together
meant that influence between them must have happened.
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Futurism and controversy:
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Futurism has had links to fascism.
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Futurists liked change even if it is violent, such as both world wars
which were welcomed by them.
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Modern futurism:
+This
is futurism after world war 2.
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Modern futurism is more of a philosophy than an art movement,
suggesting where society should go and how it should evolve. Through
violence.
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An art Exhibit called Futurism 2.0 is based on modern futurism.
