3. Prominent Artists Filippo Marinetti (started the movement) Marcel Duchamp Giacomo Balla Umberto Boccioni Carlo Carra Gino Severini
4. Futurism Characteristics Proceeded cubism in the early twentieth century and portrayed modern machines and the dynamic character of modern life and science. A poet by the name Filippo Marinetti began this âism. A main point in futurism is the theory that force or energy is the basic principle of all phenomena. The belief that the subject is less important than the dynamic sensation portrayed through irregular agitated lines to the display the energy they possess.
5. Futuristic Quote âEverything moves, everything runs, everything turns swiftly. The figure in front of us never is still, but ceaselessly appears and disappears. Owing to the persistence of images on the retina, objects in motion are multiplied, distorted, following one another like waves through space. Thus a galloping horse has not four legs; it has twenty.â Umberto Boccioni
