Futurism

Tristan Johnson
Communication Design 2
Futurism

Futurism is an art movement which originating from Russia and Italy in the 20th century. Futurism was an exploration of art in which emphasis is placed on the political and artistic ideas of the past, expressed through a wide range of media including, painting, sculpture, poetry, and architechture just to name a few. According to Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni, Futurism is a fight against what he deemed as “…the fantastical, senseless, and snobbish religion of the past…”, by religion meaning classical art that was deemed the pinnacle of the visual arts.
Throughout the 1920’s and 30’s Futurism began to grow in popularity, with many of its Italian adherents supporting the uprising of the facist movement in Italy. We start to see the rise of artists such as Giacomo Balla, Ambrogio Casati, & Angolio Mazzoni. Architechture began to take a new mold with advanced structural materials being utilized by artists such as Mazzoni and Trento. Many Futurist art displayed a zealous aesthetic of war and violence as well as the depiction of modern urban life through dynamic expression, which assisted in furthering their acceptance of the fascism movement.
In Russia, considered with Italy to being the birthplace of Futurism, a different artistic expression was used, although the Russian futurists ideas paralleled the Italians with regards to the expression of modern urban environments, Russian futurism was a literary as opposed to a visual artistic movement. In this area of the art movement, the emergence of writers such as Mikhail Goncharova and Kruchenyk who helped write the production, Victory Over the Sun. However that period ended with the beginnings of the Stalin communism, in which many artists began to be shunned for their so called radical and pointless views.
Futurism would later influence other artistic movements after its decline in the mid 1940’s, with different aspects of the art form being replicated and revived as the foundations of other art movements, for instance we have the rising of Dadaism, which is obviously influenced by the radical approach to the classical and the static, while constructivism was inspired by the futurists innovative used of building materials to express their dynamic ideas. Even the development of cyberpunk and Japanese magna/anime was built off of Futurists ideas. All in all, the Futurist would become in numerous ways, the seeds in which modern art grew out of.

(source: http://www.wikipedia.org)