Futurism

An Italian movement launched in 1909 by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's manifesto, which glorified speed, machines, the modern city and even war, and called for museums to be burned. Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini and Luigi Russolo tried to paint movement itself: a dog's legs blurred into many, cyclists and trains dissolving into lines of force, crowds and lights pulsing in a city at night, using Cubist fragmentation and Neo-Impressionist colour. In Russia, Cubo-Futurism and Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova's Rayonism, which painted crossing rays of light, grew from the same idea.

How to tell it apart: repeated, overlapping forms and diagonal 'lines of force' that suggest motion; Cubism shows still objects from many angles, Futurism things in motion.

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Artists

Kazimir Malevich · Umberto Boccioni · Natalia Goncharova · Luigi Russolo · Giacomo Balla · Gino Severini · Carlo Carrà · Lyubov Popova · Mikhail Larionov · Aleksandra Ekster · Joseph Stella · C. R. W. Nevinson · Olga Rozanova · Varvara Stepanova · José de Almada Negreiros · Amadeo de Souza Cardoso · Alexander Bogomazov

Best-known works

“The City Rises” — Umberto Boccioni, 1910
“Dynamism of a Cyclist” — Umberto Boccioni, 1913
“Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” — Umberto Boccioni, 1913
“The Knife Grinder” — Kazimir Malevich, 1912
“The Street Enters the House” — Umberto Boccioni, 1911
“Circular Dance” — Natalia Goncharova, 1910
“An Englishman in Moscow” — Kazimir Malevich, 1914
“Dynamism of a Soccer Player” — Umberto Boccioni, 1913
“States of Mind I: The Farewells” — Umberto Boccioni, 1911
“Racing car” — Luigi Russolo, 1913
“Development of a Bottle in Space” — Umberto Boccioni, 1912
“Os galgos” — Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, 1911
“Paths of Glory” — C. R. W. Nevinson, 1917
“Cyclist” — Natalia Goncharova, 1913
“Farmer at work” — Umberto Boccioni, 1908
“Riot in the Gallery” — Umberto Boccioni, 1910
“Antigrazioso” — Umberto Boccioni, 1912
“Three Women” — Umberto Boccioni, 1910
“Materia” — Umberto Boccioni, 1912
“Peasants at work” — Umberto Boccioni, 1908
“Visioni simultanee, 1912” — Umberto Boccioni, 1912
“States of Mind II: Those Who Go” — Umberto Boccioni, 1911
“States of Mind III: Those Who Stay” — Umberto Boccioni, 1911
“La Mitrailleuse” — C. R. W. Nevinson, 1915
“The knights” — Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, 1913
“The Leap of the Rabbit” — Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, 1911
“Clown, Horse, Salamander” — Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, 1911
“Charge of the Lancers” — Umberto Boccioni, 1915
“The little bright house - Landscape” — Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, 1915
“Dynamism of a Speeding Horse + Houses” — Umberto Boccioni, 1915