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Futurism
1940-1965
The Origins of The Futurist Art Movement
Futurism was founded
in Italy in 1909, initially
as a literary movement
founded by the poet and
writer Filippo Tommaso.
The Futurists embraced everything modern. The loved motion, technology
and modernity. The Futurist
Manifesto is somewhat
overbearing and
rabble-rousing in tone -
but their hearts were in the
right place. The artists
were tired of corny
sentimental scenes of rosy
cheeked milkmaids and
portraits of the bloated
aristocracy. The Futurism
Manifesto demanded that
artist run to the local
library and "set fire to the
library shelves". The
movement influenced many
painters, including
Marcel Duchamp and such
movements as
Cubism and Russian
Constructivism.
Futurism
With our enthusiastic adherence to Futurism, we will:
1. Destroy the cult of the past, the obsession with the ancients,
pedantry and academic formalism.
2. Totally invalidate all kinds of imitation.
3. Elevate all attempts at originality, however daring, however violent.
4. Bear bravely and proudly the smear of “madness” with which they try
to gag all innovators.
5. Regard art critics as useless and dangerous.
6. Rebel against the tyranny of words: “Harmony” and “good taste” and
other loose expressions which can be used to destroy the works of
Rembrandt, Goya, Rodin...
7. Sweep the whole field of art clean of all themes and subjects which
have been used in the past.
8. Support and glory in our day-to-day world, a world which is going to
be continually and splendidly transformed by victorious Science.
The dead shall be buried in the earth’s deepest bowels! The threshold of
the future will be swept free of mummies! Make room for youth, for
violence, for daring! -- Manifesto of the Futurist Painters
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Wassily Kandinsky Art Quotations
The all-important spark
of inner spiritual life is
at present only a spark. -
Wassily Kandinsky Quote
Color is the keyboard, the
eyes are the harmonies, the
soul is the piano with many
strings. The artist is the
hand that plays, touching
one key or another, to cause
vibrations in the soul -
Wassily Kandinsky Quote
There is no must in art
because art is free. -
Wassily Kandinsky Quote
The more frightening the
world becomes ... the more
art becomes abstract. -
Wassily Kandinsky Quote
Black is like the silence of
the body after death, the
close of life. - Wassily
Kandinsky Quote
The spirit like the body,
can be strengthened and
developed by frequent
exercise. - Wassily
Kandinsky Quote
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