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Futurism - Italy. Giacomo Balla , Abstract Speed + Sound , 1913–1914. Futurism in Italy 1909– 1916 : - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Futurism - Italy
Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed + Sound, 1913–1914
Futurism in Italy 1909–1916 :
The founder of Futurism and its most influential personality
was the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Marinetti
launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he
published for the first time on 5 February 1909 in La
gazzetta dell'Emilia.
He was soon joined by the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo
Carrà, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and the composer Luigi
Russolo.
Tullio Crali, Shaking Flight - 1939
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.
Tullio Crali, The Strength of the Curve - 1930
The Futurist painters were slow to develop a distinctive
style and subject matter. In 1910 and 1911 they used the
techniques of Divisionism, breaking light and color down
into a field of stippled dots and stripes, which had been
originally created by Giovanni Segantini and others.
Severini was the first to come into contact with Cubism and
following a visit to Paris in 1911. The Futurist painters
adopted the methods of the Cubists. Cubism offered them
a means of analyzing energy in paintings and expressing
dynamism.
Giulio D’Anna. Il nuotatore (swimmer), 1930. Tempera on cardboard.
They often painted modern urban scenes. Carrà's Funeral of
the Anarchist Galli (1910–11) is a large canvas representing
events that the artist had himself been involved in, in 1904.
The action of a police attack and riot is rendered
energetically with diagonals and broken planes. (before you
ask, not flying airplanes, duh)
*REMEMBER reds, yellows, oranges - abstract
Funeral of the Anarchist Galli by Carlo Carrà, 1911
Balla's Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912) exemplifies the
Futurists' insistence that the perceived world is in constant
movement. The painting depicts a dog whose legs, tail and
leash — and the feet of the woman walking it — have been
multiplied to a blur of movement. It illustrates the precepts
of the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting that, "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.
Balla - Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (1912)
In 1912 and 1913, Boccioni turned to sculpture to translate
into three dimensions his Futurist ideas. In Unique Forms of
Continuity in Space (1913) he attempted to realize the
relationship between the object and its environment, which
was central to his theory of "dynamism". The sculpture
represents a striding figure, cast in bronze posthumously and
exhibited in the Tate Modern (a modern art gallery in London).
It now appears on the national side of Italian 20 eurocent
coins.
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913)
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