Futurism

Question 1

Answer 1

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

Futurism influenced by Cubism- born in Italy by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti- championed war, destruction of museums

Futurism= speed, technology, progress, war machines, industrial city, planes, trains, cars, violence

technological triumph of humanity over nature

sculpture=motion human makes when running, human is incidental, representing motion itself (yet ironically draws on Greek tradition- e.g. Nike of Samothrace 190 BCE)