Futurism

The futurists use a cubist style, but they use it for the sake of a political message. Between 1909 and 1914, Italian artists and poets formed the Futurists, and published manifestos outlining their beliefs. Filippo Tomasso Marinetti was the leader of this movement. Futurists focus on the beauty of violence, technology, and speed – even going so far as to say a roaring motor is more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace. They’re responding to the challenges of the overwhelming amount of artwork in the world, feeling them selves burdened by the legacy of Italian art. They want to burn the museums and the libraries.

Futurism wasn’t so attractive after World War I, but the rhetoric was swallowed by Facism in the 1930s due to its intolerant language.

artwhat.

during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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