FUTURISM

Futurism was an art movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere. The Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was its founder and most influential personality. He launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909. In it Marinetti expressed a passionate loathing of everything old, especially political and artistic tradition. "We want no part of it, the past", he wrote, "we the young and strong Futurists!" The Futurists admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the airplane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature, and they were passionate nationalists.

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913 bronze

Giacomo Balla

Gino Severini

Antonio Sant'Elia,

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913 bronze

The Winged Victory of Samothrace Artist: Unknown, c. 220-190 BC Parian Marble, height 328cm

The Walking Man Auguste Rodin 1877 -1878 Bronze

Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912