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Futurism:1912 to 1920 - Coggle Diagram
Futurism:1912 to 1920
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Characteristics:
- The Futurists’ interest in motion and in the Cubist dissection of form is evident in Dynamism (can be achieved by the effect of motion by repeating shapes)
- The Futurist programme emphasised simultaneity of views, as it did Cubism.
- Some pieces highlight the formal and spatial effects of motion rather than their source, as well as blurred objects.
- The figures can be expanded, interrupted, and broken in the plane and the contour almost disappears behind the blur of its movement.
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- The dynamic movement reached a monumental expression in unique forms.
- A sense of the power of vital activity and symbolic of the dynamic quality of modern life.
- the Futurist program— politically as well as artistically.
- Broken into facets and planes in the paintings, suggesting action and movement.
The Italian movement glorified contemporary concepts of speed, technology, youth, and violence, such as the car, airplane, and industrial city.
1910 and 1911: Futurist painters made use of the technique of divisionism, which entails breaking light and colour down into a field of stippled dots and stripes
Futurist painters adopted Cubism to express their focus on dynamism, motion and speed.
Futurism was a socio-political movement founded by Italian poet and playwright Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909.
It encompassed the visual arts, cinema, theater, music, and architecture, and advocated revolution in society and art.
Once World War I (1914) broke out, the Futurist group began to disintegrate, largely because so many of them felt compelled (given the Futurist support for the war) to join the Italian Army. Some of the painters died in the war.