Futurist oil paintings

Futurist painting , includes among its main themes in the paintings: speed, the presence of machines, and the use of colors and geometric shapes to depict movement and speed.

Futurism

Futurist art is a pictorial and literary movement born in Italy during the first decade of the 20th century. In the famous Futurism Manifesto by Marinetti, published on February 20, 1909, in the newspaper Le Figaro of Paris, Futurism is proclaimed as a form of expression of struggle and boldness. It is a movement that seeks to break with the past and embraces belonging to a new contemporary reality related to speed and progress.

The Futurist Movement

The Futurist movement breaks ties with tradition, the past, and all the conventional symbols belonging to the history of art, thus embracing a new ideal connected to modernity.

The Phases of Futurism

Like all forms of art produced by humans, Futurism is also much more complex and nuanced than can be summarized in a few lines. It went through several phases: the first Futurism phase, which began in 1909 with the publication of the Futurist Manifesto, whose leading figures include Umberto Boccioni and Giacomo Balla; and the phase of second Futurism, also divided into two parts, which began after Boccioni's death (1916) and dates from 1918. Among the prominent artists is Fortunato Depero.

The second Futurism ended in 1938 and was influenced by the techniques of artistic movements developed in parallel in art: Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstractionism.

Written by Roberta Piana