Futurism

Basics● Based Italy

● Began 1909● Within the French newspaper Le Figaro “Futurist manifesto” supported the movement

● Alongside a Literary movement

● During industrial revolution

● During Russian revolution of 1917

● Combination of bright Fauve colors and broken cubist planes

● Attempting to express propulsion

Boccioni● Goal was to embrace “miracles of contemporary life”

● Defined his works with the same ideas as railroads, ocean liners, and airplanes○ Defining himself as a revolutionary

● Refused studying art○ Insisted on embracing only new art and ideas

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Giacomo Balla● Italian painter, poet, art teacher and key proponent of futurism

● Depicts light, movement and speed

● In 1914, he began to design Futurist furniture, as well as so-called Futurist

"anti-neutral" clothing.

Abstract of Speed

+ Sound

1913-1914

Carlo Carra● Attempted to bring spectators closer to the actions within the pieces

● Used his art to make political statements, and make viewers feel distress

Luigi Russolo● Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments and

author of The Art of Noises

● Named his daughter “Propeller”

● participated in all Futurist soirées and exhibitions

Gino Severini● Leading member of the futurist movement

● chose the form of the dancer to express Futurist theories of dynamism in art.

● Severini helped organize the first Futurist exhibition at Galerie Bernheim-

Jeune, Paris

● During the Futurist period, Severini acted as an important link between artists

in France and Italy

Goals of paintings● Courage, audacity, and revolts

● Celebrate “A new beauty, the beauty of speed”

● Further paintings to sensations of flux

● “Futurism was one of the most politicized art movements of the twentieth

century”

● Strong abstraction points of view that differ from cubists○ Emphasising dynamics opposed to static analytical cubism

Other forms● Futurist began with the use of a manifest

● Poetry

● Sculpture

● Oil Paintings

● Time lapses

● Videos

● “Cook book”

● Music

Questions How has art been used to make political statements in the past and was it effective?

● These art pieces are uncensored

points of view

● Many pieces of art from Goya to

Bankey has made political

statements

● Futurist are known for being the

most politicized forms of art○ But this was their goal

Questions What's the most innovative technology of our time?

The industrial revolution was

bringing in railroads, and

airplanes, striking the imagination

of futurist minds. There are was

their interpretation of the future,

which is what our world looks like

today.

Video Piece: https://youtu.be/kMh7GI9pEIY

Use of futurism: https://youtu.be/WAWjiWqPYR0 (until 1:53)

Work citedhttps://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/wwi-dada/art-great-

war/a/italian-futurism-an-introduction

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/wwi-dada/art-great-

war/a/carlo-carr-funeral-of-the-anarchist-galli

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/gino-severini

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/wwi-dada/art-great-

war/a/umberto-boccioni-unique-forms-of-continuity-in-space

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/300