For this task I’m going to talk
about Filippo Marinetti the founder of the Futurism movement in the early 20th
century.
In his manifesto; where from
there he founded Futurism, he talked how he wanted to change the whole idea in
Italy, where from there the idea of the whole world would be changed as he
wrote in his manifesto: “It is from Italy
that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto
of ours.” His idea was to free Italy from the museums which he compare them
to cemeteries, where he continued to write: “Admiring
an old picture is the same as pouring our sensibility into a funerary urn
instead of hurtling it far off, in violent spasms of action and creation.” He
wanted to pass the idea that it is not worth it to spend the energy on the past
where everyone suffered, when they could easily change the future by not given
that much importance to the past; by visiting museums, libraries, etc.…
His idea for this new style was
based on speed and energy which he got inspired from the accident he had with
the two cyclists while he was driving his car, and for sure the energy comes
from there young age, as he wrote in his manifesto that the older one from them
was thirty years of age, and with this he added that they have enough time to
finish their work. “The oldest of us is
thirty: so we have at least a decade for finishing our work.”
When you see the artwork from
this new art movement, which was backed up with Marinetti’s idea you will
immediately notice the difference from past art work. The method the artwork
was done it will create certain movement from the subject. This is a complete
difference from past work, as harmony and order in this style doesn’t exist.
Basically Marinetti’s idea was to
change the future by introducing different ideas, and the most important thing was
not to stuck with the past. Without knowing as time passes Marinetti’s idea is
still being used, as time by time everything is evolving and new things are
being invented/done, so maybe without knowing who Marinetti was, what he did
and what he said, in today’s life his idea is still alive and being used by the
majority of the people.
Italian Futurism, 2004, Futurism Manifesto (online): http://www.italianfuturism.org/manifestos/foundingmanifesto/
(Accessed 12th December 2015)
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