Futurism began in Milan, a metropolis in Italy’s northern region in 1908 and ended in the 1920s. The movement’s founder was the Italian poet, Filippo Tommasi Marinetti. Marinetti was born in 1876 and died 1944. He first studied in Egypt then in Paris, achieving a bachelorette in 1894, then graduating in 1899. He then decided to develop a literacy career becuase of his high school love for the subject. Marinetti is most widely known as the author of the ‘Futurist Manifesto’, published on the front page of the French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ in 1909. His desire was to remove all traces of the past especially the faith and culture of Italian past and replace it with a new society and a new art based on new dynamic senses. Other key artists who have a major place on the foundation of the Futurist movement was Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carra, Luigi Russell and Gino Servani.
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The futurists wanted to embrace the use of popular media and advance technologies to show their ideas. They also wanted their paintings to depict all the senses and not just those visible to the eye. They wanted to depict the noise, heat and the smell of modern
The futurists wanted to embrace the use of popular media and advance technologies to show their ideas. They also wanted their paintings to depict all the senses and not just those visible to the eye. They wanted to depict the noise, heat and the smell of modern