Futurism

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Futurism
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Some of the Futurist Manifestos!

• The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, by F.T.
  Marinetti (Paris) Le Figaro, February 20, 1909.
• The Manifesto of the Futurist Painters, by
  Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo,
  Giacomo Balla, and Gino Severini (Milan) Poesia,
  February 11, 1910.
• Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting, by
  Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo,
  Giacomo Balla, and Gino Severini (Milan) Poesia,
  April 11, 1910.
• Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture, by
  Umberto Boccioni April 11, 1912.
• The Manifesto of Futurist Musicians, by Balilla
  Pratella Musica futurista per orchestre riduzione
  per pianoforte, 1912.
• Futurist Manifesto of Lust, by Valentine de
  Saint-Point published as a leaflet January 11,
  1913.
• The Art of Noises, by Luigi Russolo. Published as
  a booklet July 1, 1913.
• Manifesto of Futurist Architecture, by Antonio
  SantElia (Florence) Lacerba, August 1, 1914.
• Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe, by
  Giacomo Balla and Fortunato Depero March 11,
  1915.
• War, the Worlds Only Hygene, by F.T. Marinetti
  1915.
• The Futurist Cinema, by F.T. Marinetti, Bruno
  Corra, Emilio Settimelli, Arnaldo Ginna, Giacomo
  Balla, and Remo Chiti (Milan) LItalia futurista,
  November 15, 1916.

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The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, by F.T.
Marinetti Le Figaro, February 20, 1909 (Paris)
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Translation

• We declare that the spendour of the world has
  been increased by a new beauty the beauty of
  speed. A racing car, its body ornamented by
  great pipes that resemble snakes with explosive
  breath. A screaming automobile that seems to run
  on grapeshot, is more beautiful than the Winged
  Victory of SamothraceBeauty now exists only in
  struggle. A work that is not aggressive in
  character cannot be a masterpiece We want to
  glorify war the worlds only hygiene
  militarism, patriotism, the destructive act of
  the anarchists, the beautiful ideas for which one
  dies, and contempt for women. We want to destroy
  museums, libraries, and academies of all kinds,
  and to make war on moralism, feminism and on
  every opportunistic and utilitarian vileness.

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Continued

• We shall sing the great crowds excited by work,
  pleasure or rioting, the multicoloured, many
  voiced tides of revolution in modern capitals.
  We shall sing the nocturnal, vibrating
  incandescence of arsenals and shipyards, ablaze
  with violent electric moons, the voracious
  stations devouring their smoking serpents the
  broad breasted locomotives that paw the grounds
  of the rails like enormous horses of steel
  harnessed with tubes, and the smooth flight of
  the aeroplanes, their propellers flapping in the
  wind like flags and seeming to clap approval like
  an enthusiastic crowd. We launch from Italy into
  the world this our manifesto of overwhelming and
  incendiary violence, with which today we found
  Futurism, because we want to liberate this land
  from the fetid cancer of professors,
  archaeologists, guides and antiquarians.

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Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting by
Boccioni

• Everything moves, everything runs, everything
  turns rapidly. A figure is never stationary
  before us but appears and disappears incessantly.
  Through the persistence of images on the retina,
  things in movement multiply and are distorted,
  succeeding each other like vibrations in the
  space through which they pass. Thus a galloping
  horse has not got four legs it has twenty and
  their motion is triangular At times, on the
  cheek of a person we are speaking to in the
  street, we see a horse passing in the distance.
  Out bodies enter into the sofas on which we sit,
  and the sofa enter into us, as also the tram that
  runs between the houses enters into them, and
  they hurl themselves on to it and fuse with it
  We want to re-enter life. That the science of
  today should deny its past corresponds to the
  material needs of our time. In the same way art,
  denying its past, must correspond to the
  intellectual needs of our time.

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Giuseppe Pelizzada VolpedoThe Fourth Estate,
1898-1901
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Eadweard Muybridge b. 1830 - d.1904
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Giacomo BallaA Workers Day, 1904
Giacomo BallaStreet Light, 1909
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• A cry went up in the airy solitude of the high
  plains Lets Murder the moonlight! Some ran
  to nearby cascades gigantic wheels were raised,
  and turbines transformed the rushing waters into
  magnetic pulses that rushed up wires, up high
  poles, up to shining, humming globes.
• So it was that the three moons cancelled with
  their rays of blinding mineral whiteness the
  ancient green queen of loves.

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Umberto BoccoiniThe City Rises, 1910
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Carlo CarraLeaving the Theatre, 1910-11
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Carlo CarràFuneral of the Anarchist Galli,
1910-11
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Luigi RussoloRevolt, 1911
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Umberto Boccioni States of Mind The
Farewells1911
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Umberto Boccioni States of Mind Those Who
Go1911
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Umberto Boccioni States of Mind Those who
stay1911
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Umberto BoccioniStates of Mind The Farewells
1911, Charcoal and chalk on paper
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Umberto BoccioniStates of Mind Those Who Go
1911, Charcoal and chalk on paper
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Umberto BoccioniStates of Mind Those Who Stay
1911, Charcoal and chalk on paper
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• The Futurists in Paris, February 1912.
• (L to R. Luigi Russolo, Carlo Carra,
• F. T. Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni,
• Gino Severini.)

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George BraqueClarinet and Bottle of Rum on a
Mantelpiece, 1911
Gino SeveriniSelf Portrait, 1912-13
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Umberto BoccioniElasticity, 1912
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Giacomo BallaDynamism of a Dog on a Leash,1912
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Étienne-Jules Marey b. 5 March 1830 d. 15 May
1904
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Giacomo BallaRhythm of a Violinist, 1912
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Marcel DuchampNude Descending the Staircase,
No. 2, 1912
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Umberto BoccioniUnique Forms of Continuity in
Space, 1913
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Anton Giulio Bragaglia
Typist, Anton and Arturo Bragaglia (1911)
1912/13
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Umberto BoccioniDynamism of a Cyclist 1913
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Marcel DuchampThe Bride Stripped Bare by her
Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)  1915-23

• Replica 1965-6, lower panel reconstructed
• Oil, lead, dust and varnish on glass

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Giacomo BallaSpeeding Car, Abstract Speed 1913
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Giacomo BallaSwifts Paths of Movement, 1913
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Carlo CarráHorse and Rider or The Red Rider,
1913
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Umberto BoccioniThe Charge of the Lancers,
1915
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Umberto BoccioniLancers Charge, 1914-15
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Architecture Antonio SantElia
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