what is futurism

Futurism is an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was founded by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who launched the movement in his Manifesto of Futurism. The movement emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Futurism was one of several 20th-century movements in art music that paid homage to, included or imitated machines. Futurist painting used elements of neo-impressionism and cubism to create compositions that expressed the idea of the dynamism, the energy and movement, of modern life. Futurism is an inherently Italian art movement, fueled by the belief that the country had to reject its past in order to thrive in its future. The movement was intensely patriotic and admired violence. Although it owed much of its character and some of its ideas to radical political movements, it was not much involved in politics until the autumn of 1913. Futurism had a profound influence on artists and art movements from around 1912 to 1920.