FUTURISM (AVANT GARDE) (oct 8, 1912 – jun 8, 1915)

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1912 - 1915

- response to the turmoil of WWI and the Spanish
- started using abstraction and the media to promote political views
celebrated speed, war, machinery, energy, pollution, militarism, nationalism, and revolution (race cars, people on horses, blimps, planes, and ships)
- inspired by the man new inventions during this time (camera, telescope)
- drew upon imagery from the physical world
- rebellion of Renaissance and Neo- Classical artistic values
-strong nationalism
- demanded the destruction of libraries, museums, academies, and cities of the past to expand Italian territory

MARINETTI
- "words in freedom" (different type faces that represent the different sounds of battle)
- collage

BALLA
- depiction of light, movement, and speed
- rendered motion through simultaneous views
- inspired by Muybridge and Duchamp

BRAGAGLIA
- photodynamisto
- would leave shutter open to create movement in a still image
- destruction of form through motion

BOCCIONI
- depicted street lights and views from a cab of train
- interested in light and movement
- represented the qualities or violence and speed
- wanted to abolish the definite lines and closed sculpture, fusing them with their surrounding environment

Unique forms of continuity in space
- human is distorted through motion
- attacked the subject of the nude

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