Futurism Image source:-www.widewalls.ch/magazine/futurism-art "In the early 1900s, a group of young and rebellious Italian writers and artists emerged determined to celebrate industrialization." In 1908 charismatic Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was driving along a road outside of Milan when he had to dramatically swerve into a ditch to avoid hitting two cyclists. While lying in the ditch, he realized that the beauty and violence of the modern age must be celebrated by art. The futurism movement was born. Marinetti became obsessed with everything the future has to offer. In 1909, he laid out his idea to the world in his manifesto of futurism. He wanted to rewrite culture. His futurist vision could be applied to everything from literature, theatre architecture, and fashion and even to cooking, but it particularly captured the imagination of a group of like-minded Italian artists. Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Luigi Russolo, banded together and wrote the manifesto ...
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