Italian Futurist art movement of the early 20th century. The presentation focusses on the work of the 5 principal Italian futurist painters, the range of paintings created roughly between 1908-1916.

1. The City Rises
1911, oil on canvas
200 x 290.5 cm

2. Unique Forms of Continuity in
Space, 1913 (cast
1931), bronze, 43 7/8 x 34 7/8 x
15 3/4"

3. Dynamism of a
Car
Luigi Russolo
1912, oil on canvas

4. FUTURISM
Italy Early 20th century

5. Futurism, the context
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Industrial revolution in Europe-early 1900s
Aeroplane-1905
Innovations- electricity, x-rays, radio
waves, automobiles and airplanes
Italy represented the past- Renaissance, Baroque
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
(cast 1931), bronze, 43 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 15
3/4"

6. Futurism, the movement
In the early 1900s, a group of young and rebellious Italian writers
and artists emerged determined to celebrate industrialization. They
were frustrated by Italy’s declining status and believed that the
“Machine Age” would result in an entirely new world order and even a
renewed consciousness. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the ringleader of
this group, called the movement Futurism. Its members sought to
capture the idea of modernity, the sensations and aesthetics of
speed, movement, and industrial development
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11. Umberto Biocconi
"Let us fling open the
figure and let it
incorporate within itself
whatever may surround
it."
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Development of a bottle in space, Umberto Boccioni

12. Elasticity
1912, oil on canvas
100.06 x 100.06 cm

13. Dynamism of the human
body
1911, oil on canvas
200 x 290.5 cm

14. Luigi Russolo
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Italian Futurist painter
and composer
First Noise artist
“industrial revolution
had given modern men
a greater capacity to
appreciate more
complex sounds.”
Intonarumori, 1914
Self potrait, Luigi Russolo

15. Music, 1911
Luigi Rossolo

16. The revolt, 1911
Luigi Russolo

17. Perfume
1912, oil on canvas

18. Giacomo Balla
Divisionism, painting with
divided rather than mixed
color and breaking the
painted surface into a field of
stippled dots and stripes.

22. Gino Severini
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Italian Futurist painter
and composer
Influenced by Balla’s
Divisionism
Transitioned to
synthetic cubism
Simultaniety of Centrifugal
and
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913
(cast 1931), bronze, 43 7/8 x 34 7/8 x 15
3/4"

23. The
boulevard, 1911

24. Ballerina in blue
Gino Serverini

25. Armoured train in action
Gino Serverini

26. The cyclist, Gino Severini

28. Carlo carra
Anarchist Italian irredentist
Fascist
Motion and feeling(futurist)
Form and stillness(cubist)
Carrà soon began creating still
lifes in a style he, along with
Giorgio de Chirico, called
"metaphysical painting
Interventionist Demonstration, 1914. Tempera
and collage on cardboard, 38.5 x 30 cm

30. Carlo
Carra, 1912,
Jolts in a cab

31. Carlo
Carra, 1912, Concurr
ency, Woman on the

32. La Musa Metafisica
Carlo Carra, 1912

33. Thanks.
Surabhi Bhatnagar
National Institute of Design
Simultaneous visions
Umberto Biocconi