Severini and Boccioni use brilliant colors, abstraction, fragmentation and repetition of forms to create a vibrant whirling energy.
Futurism
The Futurists called for the destruction of museums, libraries, and cultural monuments and glorified modern technology and the speed of automobiles, trains, and airplanes.
Umberto Boccioni and the Futurist City
Words, sounds, images, shapes, and colors were all used to convey the intensity of experience and bring the viewer into the heart of the action.
Futurist Free Word Painting
Rejecting traditional subject matter, Balla paints an object that is forthrightly modern and technological.
Giacomo Balla, Street Light
The artist completed this sculpture during World War I, shortly before he died.
Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Horse
Ready to break with Classical and Renaissance styles, Boccioni sculpted a future-man: muscular, dynamic, driven.
Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in ...
A visit to Paris, after preparing a study for this painting, changed Carrà’s whole approach for the final canvas.
Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli
This group of writers and artists celebrated industrialization, which they hoped would energize their native Italy.
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