Futurism

Futurism (c1909-1915)

Louis Vauxcelles (1870-1943)

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) - poet and leader of Futurism

Umberto Boccioni (1889-1916)

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Gino Severini (1881-1966)

Carlo Carra (1881-1966)

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Luigi Russolo (1885-1947)

Antonio Sant Elia (1888-1916) - architect

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1909 - Marinetti's article on Futurism in Le Figaro

Marinetti wrote the Futurist Manifesto from his luxury Villa Rosa near Milan in 1909

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Up until 1871, Italy was all states. In 1861 it was unified but papale states were not included in this alliance.

In 1871 political tension grew between north and south, and in 1896 anarchists were unhappy as the prime minister, Giovanni Giolitti was moderate and made no extreme decisions

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Invention of X-Ray = 1895

Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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Gaetano Previati's (1852-1920) 'The Dance of Roses' (1908)

Angelo Morbelli's (1853-1919) 'For Eighty Cents!' (1815)

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Boccioni, Russolo and Carra visited the Cubists in Paris in autumn 1911

Severini lived in Paris from 1906 onwards

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Georges Braque (1882-1963)

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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'Self Portrait' (1912-1913) Severini

'The Boulevard' (1911) Severini

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Eadweard J. Muybridge (1830-1904)

Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

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Giacomo Balla's (1871-1958) 'Leash in Motion' (1912)

Giulio Bragaglia (1890-1960)

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'Leaving the Theatre' (1910-1911) Carra

'States of Mind' (1911) Boccioni

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'The Portuguese' (1911) Braque

'The City Rises' (1910) Boccioni

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'A Modern Idol' (1910-1911) Boccioni

Henri Matisse's (1869-1954) 'The Green Stripe' (1905)

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Toulouse Lautrec's (1864-1901) 'Woman with a Black Boa' (1892)

'The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli' (1910-1911) by Carra depicts the General strike in Milan in 1904

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'Music' (1911) Russolo

'Revolt' (1911) Russolo

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'The Hands of the Violinist' (1912) Balla

'Abstract Speed and Landscape' (1913) Balla

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'Windows in Pairs' (1912) Robert Delauney

'The Rock Drill' (1913-1914) by Jacob Epstein (1880-1959)

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Tatlin's (1885-1953) 'Monument to the third International' (1919-1920)

Zaha Hadid's (born 1950) 'The Peak Project, Kowloon, Hong Kong' (1982) and 'Vitra fire station' (1989-1993)

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