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FUTURISM: Futurist Ideas and the Visual Arts

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FUTURISM:

Futurist Ideas and the Visual Arts

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Marinetti: Futurist Manifesto (1909)

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Russolo – Carra – Marinetti – Boccioni – Severini

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With our enthusiastic adherence to Futurism, we will:

1. Destroy the cult of the past, the obsession with the ancients, pedantry and academic formalism.

2. Totally invalidate all kinds of imitation. 3. Elevate all attempts at originality, however daring, however violent. 4. Bear bravely and proudly the smear of “madness” with which they try to gag all

innovators. 5. Regard art critics as useless and dangerous. 6. Rebel against the tyranny of words: “Harmony” and “good taste” and other loose

expressions which can be used to destroy the works of Rembrandt, Goya, Rodin... 7. Sweep the whole field of art clean of all themes and subjects which have been used in

the past. 8. Support and glory in our day-to-day world, a world which is going to be continually and

splendidly transformed by victorious Science.

The dead shall be buried in the earth’s deepest bowels! The threshold of the future will be swept free of mummies! Make room for youth, for violence, for daring!

From the Manifesto of the Futurist Painters (1910)

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Giacomo Balla Street Light (1909)

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Balla: Stairwell: the Farewells (1908)

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Boccioni: The City Rises (1910-11)

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Boccioni: States of Mind: the Farewells, Those that Go, Those that Stay (1911)

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Russolo: The Revolt (1911)

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All objects […] tend to the infinite by dint of their force-lines, the continuity of which is measured by our intuition.

It is these force-lines that we must reproduce in order to lead the work of art back to true paining. We interpret nature by rendering these objects upon the canvas as the beginnings or prolongations of the rhythms which these very objects impress upon our sensibility.

The Exhibitors to the Public (1912)

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Russolo: Dynamics of an Automobile (1912/13)

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Carlo Carra: Funeral of the Anarchist Galli (1911)

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OTHER INFLUENCES

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Georges Seurat: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte (1884-6)

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Pablo Picasso: Accordionist (1911)

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Robert Delaunay: Red Eiffel Tower (1911)

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Severini: Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin (1912)

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Severini: Armoured Train in Action (1915)

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Severini: Dancer by the Sea (1912/13)

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TIMEDURATION

AND SIMULTANEITY

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BergsonNietzsche

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Balla: Dog on a Leash (1912)

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The gesture which we would reproduce on canvas shall no longer be a fixed moment in universal dynamism. It shall simply be the dynamic sensation itself.

Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.

Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto 1910

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Étienne-Jules Marey: Chronophotograph: Man Jumping off Stool (late 19th c)

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Marey's chronophotographic gun

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Eadweard J. Muybridge

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Anton Bragaglia: Change of Position (1911)

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Balla: The Violinist’s Hands (1912)

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Balla: Speed of a Motorcycle 1913

For us simultaneity is a lyrical exaltation, a plastic manifestation of a new absolute, speed.

Futurist Painting and Sculpture (1914)

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Balla: Abstract Speed - The Car has Passed (1913)

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Balla: Speed and Landscape (1913)

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Balla: Mercury Passing in Front of the Sun

(1914)

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Boccioni: Study for Dynamism of a Cyclist 1 (1913)

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Boccioni: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

(1913)

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Balla: Futurist clothing

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Anton Guila Bragaglia: Perfido Incanto (1916)

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Bragaglia: Perfido Incanto