An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions. Originated by F.T. Marinetti, among others
{i} modern art movement characterized by the attempt to depict motion by means of cubist forms (originated in Italy in the early 1900's)
the position that the meaning of life should be sought in the future an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age
An early 20th century art movement, characterized by its desire to celebrate the movement and speed of modern industrial life
This early 20th-century movement originating in Italy glorified the machine age and attempted to represent machines and figures in motion The aesthetics of Futurism affirmed the beauty of technological society
Futurism was a modern artistic and literary movement in the early twentieth century. a style of art, music, and literature in the early 20th century which emphasized the importance of modern things, especially technology and machines. Early 20th-century art movement, centred in Italy, that celebrated the dynamism, speed, and power of the machine and the vitality and restlessness of modern life. The term was coined by Filippo Marinetti, who in 1909 published a manifesto glorifying the new technology of the automobile and the beauty of its speed and power. In 1910 Umberto Boccioni and others published a manifesto on painting. They adopted the Cubist technique of depicting several views of an object simultaneously with fragmented planes and outlines and used rhythmic spatial repetitions of the object's outlines in transit to render movement. Their preferred subjects were speeding cars and trains, racing cyclists, and urban crowds; their palette was more vibrant than the Cubists'. With Boccioni, the most prominent Futurist artists were his teacher, Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), and Gino Severini (1883-1966). Boccioni's death in 1916 and World War I brought an end to the movement, which had a strong influence in postrevolutionary Russia and on Dada. Literary, artistic, and political movement. Futurism, which began in Italy about 1909, was marked especially by violent rejection of tradition and an effort to give formal expression to the dynamic energy and movement of mechanical processes. Its most significant results were in the visual arts and poetry. Futurism was first announced in a manifesto by Filippo Marinetti. The principal Italian Futurist artists were Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà (1881-1966), and Gino Severini (1883-1966). Russian Futurism, founded soon afterward by Vladimir Mayakovsky and Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922), went beyond the Italian model in its revolutionary political and social outlook. The movement's influence had ceased to be felt by 1930
an artistic movement founded in Italy in 1909, as a glorification of machinery, speed, and violence; followed the color approach of neo-impressionists; important artists were Boccioni, Balla, Carra, and Severini Examples
an art movement opposed traditionalism and sought to depict dynamuc movement by eliminating conventional form and by atressing the speed, flux, and violence of the machine age
an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age