FUTURISM (1909-1914)
Futurism was a revolutionary Italian movement that celebrated modernity. Its
vision glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology and
objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city. The Futurists borrowed the visual vocabulary
of Cubism, but with a twist. In a Cubist
painting the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints, whereas in a Futurist painting the subject
itself seems to move around the artist!
LUIGI
RUSSOLO
"Solidity of
Fog" (Solidita Della Nebbia, 1912)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
UNBERTO
BOCCIOINI (1882-1916)
"Dynamism of a Soccer
Player" (1913)
Oil on Canvas (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
GIACOMO BALLA (1871-1954)
"Abstract Speed +
Sound" (1914)
Oil on Unvarnished Millboard (Guggenheim Foundation, New York City)
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