Futurism+and+Boccioni

Introduction - Giada M.
The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was the first among them to produce a manifesto of their artistic philosophy in his Manifesto of Futurism (1909). Marinetti summed up the major principles of the Futurists, including a passionate loathing of ideas from the past, especially political and artistic traditions. He and others also espoused a love for speed, technology and violence; cars, planes, industrial towns were idolized by the Futurists because they represented the technological triumph of man over nature.
 * Futurism** was a 20th-century art movement. Futurists explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, poetry, theatre, music, architecture and even gastronomy.


 * Umberto Boccioni,** one of the leaders of this artistic movement, was both a painter and a sculptor. In the next sections a short biography and a selection of two of his most famous works will follow.

Biography of Umberto Boccioni 2 works of art by Boccioni