Futurism

(1909-1914)

Italian avant-garde art movement of the 20th century
celebrated advanced technology and urban modernity, to destroy older forms of culture and to demonstrate the beauty of modern life - the beauty of the machine and change.
fascinated by representing modern experience and the senses of the metropolis, and strived to have their paintings evoke all kinds of sensations.
glorified industrialization, urbanization, and technology along with the speed, noise and energy of urban life. more dynamic than Cubism in expressing experience. In Cubism, the artist records selected details of a subject as he moves around it, whereas in Futurism, the subject moves around the artist.