Futurismi

Today more than talking about a particular painting I propose a look into Italian Futurism, a movement from the early 20th century, that started in Milan and Torino with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra and Giaccomo Balla, just to mention few.

A movement that not only influenced artistic manifestation, but architecture and literature as well.

It all started with the publication of the Manifesto Futuristi by Marinetti in 1909, where he proposed a complete breakage from traditional artistic canons and called Italy the ''Terra dei morti '' that is to say, the land of the dead; he spoke of sites so antique as Pompeii, that were full of tombs.

But what is interesting is the influence of technology in the Futurist Movement, the airplane, the train; that created within all the aforementioned artists the intension of recreating the newest of technological advances and bringing into life a new sense of speed, motion and vitality; transferred into every way of manifestation, a proposal so complete and avant -garde that it even had an influence in fashion and music.

Added to the starts of the Futurismi is the experience Marinetti - a versed aristocrat- had in a newly invention, the automobile; an accident. While his poetic description of the events inspired him to advocate for speed and motion; it also marked the start of a ''declared war'' against all classicism and formal education.