Manifesto! Modern Art, Big Ideas (futurism)

Futurism is an italian art movement which came about in the 20th century, some of the artists which were part of this movement were, Carlo Carra, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Luigi Russolo and also Sant Elia. These 5 artists were the founding fathers of futurism.

The ideas was of a more grand Itali because in that time Itali wasn't as well known as the other countries, so they sort to make great, they were infatuated with the development of the world and the future. there idea basis was to get rid of the old things and start to create the new things.

The artists used bright, bold colours and in most of there works there themes would be; nature, speed and violence.

As you can see below from Carlo Carra's work the theme is violence as you can seem a mass of people fighting, it resembles more of war as the are all on horseback with spears.

Umberto Boccioni art works were more energetic and has a lot more colour than Carra's paintings, he also focuses more on city life than anything else, as you can see below his art works resembles more of a cubist technic, this is quite ironic because although they are trying to look to the future, they failed to notice that there art technic's are of the past.

However, they use this effectively as it suits there bold and a little chaotic art works.

One of these paintings would be 'A Starda entra nella casa' in english this would translate to 'The street enters the house'.