ModernismFuturism
Futurism
Blood, speed and violence.
Prophet of the violent, industrial future
1888 – 1916
Why can’t I stop painting my mother?
1882 – 1916
A poet creates a church of speed and violence
1876 – 1944
Machines that scream: inventing Futurist music
1885 – 1947
Rhythm and dynamic movement
1882 – 1949
Moving objects multiply themselves
1871 – 1958
The heartbreaking sincerity of genius
1892 – 1960
Art-Punk in Futurist Moscow
1881 – 1962
An argument for consistency
1881 – 1966
A future of dancers instead of machines
1883 – 1966
Enchanted spaces in the city of Nietzsche
1888 – 1978
Literature has exalted pensive immobility, ecstasy, and sleep. We exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia...The world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.
We will declare war on all artists and institutions which insist a façade of false modernity...they are ensnared by tradition, academicism and nauseating cerebral laziness.
The motor bus rushes into the houses, and the houses throw themselves on the motor bus. The construction of pictures has hitherto been foolishly traditional.
How can generations of sculptors can continue to construct dummies without asking why the exhibition halls of sculpture have become reservoirs of boredom and nausea?
Art for life and even more—life for art!
Ancient life was all silence. Today, Noise reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.
Just as the ancients drew inspiration for their art from the elements of nature, we—who are materially and spiritually artificial—must find that inspiration in the elements of the utterly new mechanical world we have created.
