Futurism

Marinetti's cult of speed, machines, and the destruction of museums — modernism with its foot on the accelerator.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1909 – 1944

region

Italy, with Russian offshoots

key figures

F. T. Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Natalia Goncharova

exemplar

The Futurist Manifesto (1909)

introduced

1909

Core Principles & Analysis

• Marinetti's 1909 manifesto on Le Figaro's front page launched it.
• It glorified machinery, speed, and war in paint, verse, and performance.
• Russian Futurism took the word 'words-in-freedom' into its own revolution.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Futurism