Futurism

An Italian poet and editor by the name of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti started the futurism movement with a manifesto he wrote after World War I. He introduced a love of speed, technology, and voilence into the art world, forming a new movement concerned with "technological triumph of man over nature."

Futurism was inspired by cubism, but expanded beyond that specific technique. Futurist painters used repetition of lines, colors, and flowing brush strokes to help show the movement within the painting. They also used a wide range of angles to incorperate the dimension of time within a picture.

Futurism embraced the new world of technology instead of fearing it. It celebrates change, originality, and innovation in culture and society. It glorifies war and favores fascism, since almost all Futurist painters were also fascists.

"Elasticity" by Umberto Boccioni