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Futurism was an early 20th-century Italian artistic and social movement focused on technology, speed, and youthfulness, aiming to break away from the past. Founded by poet Marinetti, it was most influential between 1909 and 1914, later reviving post-World War I and influencing various art movements. Key works include Umberto Boccioni's 'The City Rises' and Giacomo Balla's 'Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash,' which exemplify the movement's themes of movement and modernity.

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Futurism was an early 20th-century Italian artistic and social movement focused on technology, speed, and youthfulness, aiming to break away from the past. Founded by poet Marinetti, it was most influential between 1909 and 1914, later reviving post-World War I and influencing various art movements. Key works include Umberto Boccioni's 'The City Rises' and Giacomo Balla's 'Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash,' which exemplify the movement's themes of movement and modernity.

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FUTURISM

What is Futurism?
Futurism (Italian: Futurismo) was an artistic and
social movement in early 20th century that put an
emphasis on themes like technology, speed, and
youthfulness. Given these themes, objects like cars,
planes, and industrial cities were popular. Futurism
sought to cut ties with the past and move the Italian
design movement intrepidly to the modern. While
futurism was a very uniquely Italian design
movement, there were nontheless strains of the
same ideas that popped up simultaneously in
Russia, Belgium, and the UK.
History of Futurism
Futurism was invented and predominantly based in Italy,
led by the charismatic poet Marinetti. The group was at
its most influential and active between 1909 and 1914 but
was re-started by Marinetti after the end of the First
World War. This revival attracted new artists and became
known as second-generation Futurism. Futurism
influenced many other 20th-century art movements,
including Art Deco, Vorticism, Constructivism,
Surrealism, Dada, and much later Neo-Futurism and the
Grosvenor School linocut artists.
The City Rises: 1910
Artist : Umberto
Boccioni

This pioneering work launched


Futurism when it was exhibited
in Milan in the 1911 Monstra
d'arte libera (Exhibition of free
art). The painting combined the
brushstrokes and blurred forms
of Post-impressionism with
Cubism's fractured
representations.
Originally entitled II lavoro
(Work), it depicts the
construction of Milan's new
electrical power plant. In the
center of the frame, a large red
horse surges forward as three
men, their muscles straining,
try to guide and control it. In
the background other horse,
depicted in vibrant primary
colors, become the focal point
of the frenzied movement that As art critic Michael Brenson notes
surrounds them, suggesting
change is borm from chaos and "Horses and people are forces of nature
that everyone, including the pitted against and aligned with one another
viewer, is caught up in the in a primal sturggle from which Boccioni
transformation. must have believe something revolitionary
would be born".
Dynamism of a Dog on a leash :
1912
Artist: Giacomo balla
This humurous painting shows a woman as
she walks her smallblack Dachshund down a
city sidewalk. Cropped to an extend close-
up, the woman's feet, along with the bottom
folds of her back dress, as well as the dog's
feet, tail and floppy ears are multiplied and
depicted in varying degrees of transparency
and opacity. The fine metal leash becomes
four parabolic curves connecting the woman
to the dog. This repitition and replication of
the moving elements creates a sense of
forward motion which is in opposition to the
pavement's diagonal lines. l
References
• http://www.theartstory.org/movements/futurism/
artworks/
• http://www.britannica.com/art/futurism
• http:/www.theartstory.org/movement/futurism/#:
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