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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