FUTURISM

History

 The Italian futurism is the first art movement that

can be considered an avant-garde movement.
They introduce with their art an ideological
interest that affected deeply culture and even
social coustumes,when denies all the past
substituting it by stylistic and technical
experimentation.
History

 The manifesto called for the glorification of progress, industry, and mechanization and the
removal of old ideas and institutions. This was the first of many manifestos that the group
published.

 avant-garde means the “vanguard” or the “advance guard” — basically the people and ideas
that are ahead of their time. Usually it refers to a movement in the arts, like Dadaism, or in
politics, like anarchism. Avant-garde can also be used as an adjective to describe something
that's cutting-edge.
*International art movement founded in Italy in 1909.
 Contrast to romanticism
Speed noise machine Pollution and cities
 Fearing and attacking technology
Artists

 It officially began with Marinetti’s Manifesto in 1909.

 The manifesto was signed by
1. Balla
2. Carra
3. Baccioni
4. Russolo
5. sofficl
Philosophy

 The avant-garde movements are a phenomenon typical of non well

developed countries in which the movement appears as a rebellion
in front of the official culture, normally moderate.
 They align in the side of progressive political movements even
being intentionally revolutionary, their effort is more polemic. In
the futurist manifest they mention the distraction of historical city
and museum .
Characteristics

 Rejecting of old cultural ideas

 They made art which emphasized the dynamism, Speed, energy, And power of machine
and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life in general.
 Appeared Similar to the cubist Style but but with added characteristics of suggested
movement.
 Futurist painter made the rhythm of repetition of lines.
 Inspired by some photographic experiments, they were breaking motion into small
sequences and using the wide range of angle within a given time frame all aimed to
incorporate the dimension of the time within the picture.
Cont…

 The characteristics of the movement were their interests in an art forged out of
the beauty of speed and a glorification of war.
 The physical movement as long as speed is concerned , is a cohesive factor that
allows the fusion of object and space .
 They amid at eliminating the basic dualism of the traditional culture
 The unit of the real should not be produce in the thought but in sensation in an
emotive way.
 The artist must under line dynamism to make it more Emotive.
 Forms are full of freedom, breaking the elements but some times is
not completely abstract.
 Important use of colour,incontrast with the cubism, to which it
keeps some similes in form.
 Strong line and combination with point list techniques
 Compositions full of movement subjects compromised with
society.
Influence on futurism

 The Italian group was slow to develop a distinct style. In the years prior to the
emergence of the movement, its members had worked using an eclectic range of
methods inspired by Post-Impressionism, and they continued to do so. Whilst
studying in Rome in 1901, Severini and Boccioni visited Balla's studio where he
introduced them to Divisionism. Developed from the color theory and Pointillism
 of Georges Seurat, in Divisionism the image was separated into stippled dots and
stripes of pure color and these interacted optically to create the finished work.
The use of bold color became very important to the Futurists, as art critic Henry
Adam notes, the artists "in keeping with their Post-Impressionist antecedents,
employed brilliant, electrifying, prismatic colors".
 Cont…

 Cubism, however, that had the greatest impact on Futurist art, even though the
Futurists felt it was too static in its treatment and subject. In 1911 a number of
Futurists traveled to Paris, where Severini introduced Boccioni, Carrà, and Russolo to
the city's leading artists, including Picasso and Braque. As a result of this encounter,
the Futurists began to incorporate fractured planes into their work. Boccioni revised the
three paintings of his States of Mind series (1911) and Carrà incorporated fracturing
into Funeral of the Anarchist Galli (1910-11).
 Pre-War Developments 
 Futurism came to wider public attention in 1912 with the First Exhibition of Futurist
Painting at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris at which the group displayed a number
of these early works. As art historian Lawrence Raney records, the style "prompted
discussion that extended through every level of metropolitan culture, from elite literary
reviews to mass circulation newspapers, in France, England, Germany, and Russia". The
exhibition subsequently went on tour, traveling to London, Berlin, and Brussels.
Futurist

 Futurists are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to

systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they
can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life
on Earth in general.
 Associated authors: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, 
Francesco Balilla Pratella
 Artists: Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Carlo Carrà, 
Aleksandra Ekster, Giorgio Morandi
 F T Marinetti the first Futurist

 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in full Filippo Tommaso

Emilio Marinetti, (born December 22, 1876,
Alexandria, Egypt—died December 2, 1944, Bellagio,
Italy), Italian-French prose writer, novelist, poet, and
dramatist, the ideological founder of Futurism, an
early 20th-century literary, artistic, and political
movement.
 “But we will have none of it, we, the Young, Strong
and Living Futurists”
FUTURIST PAINTER

 Futurist painters made the rhythm of their the

ripiteshion of lines
 Inspired by some photographic experiment, they
where braking motion in to small sequence and
using the wide range of angles with in a given
time frame all and to incorporate the dimension of
time with the picture
 Famous futurist painter

GINO SEVERRINI
 Gino SeverinI was an Italian painter and a leading member of the
Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time
between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism
and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War.
During his career he worked in a variety of media, including
mosaic and fresco. He showed his work at major exhibitions,
including the Rome Quadrennial, and won art prizes from major
institutions.
DAVID BONBERG

 David Garshen Bomberg was an English painter, and one of

the Whitechapel Boys. Bomberg was one of the most
audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who
studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks, and
which included Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, C.R.W.
Nevinson and Dora Carrington. Bomberg painted a series of
complex geometric compositions combining the influences
of cubism and futurism in the years immediately preceding
World War I; typically using a limited number of striking
colours, turning humans into simple, angular shapes, and
sometimes overlaying the whole painting a strong grid-work
colouring scheme.
Alexander Bogomazov

 Alexander Bogomazov or Oleksandr Bohomazov was

Ukrainian painter, known artist and modern art
theoretician of Russian Avant-garde. In 1914 Alexander
wrote his treatise The Art of Painting and the Elements.
In it he analyzed the interaction between Object, Artist,
Picture, and Spectator and sets the theoretical
foundation of modern art. During his artistic life
Alexander Bogomazov mastered several art styles. The
most known are Cube-Futurism and Spectralism
Futurist architecture

 Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture

born in Italy, characterized by strong chromaticism, long dynamic
lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency and lyricism: it was a
part of Futurism, an artistic movement founded by the poet
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who produced its first manifesto, the
Manifesto of Futurism, in 1909. The movement attracted not only
poets, musicians, and artists (such as Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo
Balla, Fortunato Depero, and Enrico Prampolini) but also a
number of architects. A cult of the Machine Age and even a
glorification of war and violence were among the themes of the
Futurists (several prominent futurists were killed after
volunteering to fight in World War I). The latter group included
the architect Antonio Sant'Elia, who, though building little,
translated the futurist vision into an urban form.[1]
 Futurist architecture
Antonio Sant’Elia (1888- 1916)
 Antonio Sant'Elia was an Italian architect and a key
member of the Futurist movement in architecture. He left
behind almost no completed works of architecture and is
primarily remembered for his bold sketches and influence
on modern architecture. 
 Antonio Sant'Elia was an architect of the Futurist
Movement who used concrete, glass and iron.
 No architecture has existed since 1700. A moronic mixture
of the most various Stylistic element used to mask the
skeletons of modern houses is called modern architecture.
Futurist architecture

 His ideas. ..
 He declared that architecture must begin again from beginning.
 He called for an architecture new material with out ornament or decoration and an
architecture of oblique and elliptical line.
 He abandons the traditional architectural presentation forms plan and elevations and the
emphasis on construction details and relies entirely on perspective drawings because they
allowed him to convey the atmosphere of urban dynamism .
Futurist architecture

 1. The futurist architecture is the architecture of

calculation of audacious temerity and of
simplicity ; the architecture of reinforced
Concrete of steel, glass , cardboard, textile fiber,
and of all those substitute for wood stone and
brick that enable us to obtain maximum elasticity
and lightness.
 Futurist architecture

 Citta Nuova. Citta Nuova Rendered

Sant Elia‘s Sketch
Futurist architecture
Local futuristic building

 Bedilu building is a 8/story low

rise building in Addis Ababa
location near the national theatre,
ras abebe aregay street.
 Its one of futuristic Building
found in Addis Ababa
 FUTURISIM SUMMERY

 Futurism: Summary of Key Points

 The Futurist Manifesto:
 • published in a Parisian newspaper on February 20, 1909
 • written before the Futurist movement actually existed; a direct challenge to the French
 avant-garde which is why it was published in a French newspaper
 • a call for “war” on the old but this call is made by claiming that war is the world’s best
 “hygiene” a call for speed and change and the rejection of all forms of tradition
 • claims that “Art can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.”
What the Futurists share:
• their artistic origins begin with divisionism (neo-
impressionism)
• a pervasive interest in the city, in agitation, in dynamism of
all forms as subjects of their
art
• an interest in the experience of “simultaneity” or the
experience of varied types of
sensations all at once
• a rejection of cubism because they believed it was too
intellectualized and too static
• a conception of reality as emotional and dynamic; they
cultivated new art for its shock
value
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