Futurism

FuturismNadia Irsan

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Futurism

1904-1944

Prominent ArtistsFilippo Marinetti (started the movement)Marcel DuchampGiacomo BallaUmberto BoccioniCarlo CarraGino Severini

Futurism CharacteristicsProceeded cubism in the early twentieth

century and portrayed modern machines and the dynamic character of modern life and science. A poet by the name Filippo Marinetti began this –ism.

A main point in futurism is the theory that force or energy is the basic principle of all phenomena.

The belief that the subject is less important than the dynamic sensation portrayed through irregular agitated lines to the display the energy they possess.

Futuristic Quote“Everything moves, everything runs, everything turns swiftly. The figure in front of us never is still, but ceaselessly appears and disappears. Owing to the persistence of images on the retina, objects in motion are multiplied, distorted, following one another like waves through space. Thus a galloping horse has not four legs; it has twenty.”

Umberto Boccioni

Giacomo Balla

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912)

Giacomo Balla

Streetlight (1909)

Umberto Boccioni

Elasticity(1912)

Umberto BoccioniUnique forms of continuity in space (1913) cast in bronze in (1931)

Marcel DuchampPortrait of a Chess Player (1911)

Work cited http://www.mfah.org/exhibition.asp http://www.artchive.com/artchive/f/futurist/elastic.jpg http://xroads.virginia.edu/~museum/armory/galleryI/duchamp.240.html http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/286.jpg www.bridgemanartondemand.com