futurism

(noun)

An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions; (originated by F.T. Marinetti, among others).

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Examples of futurism in the following topics:

  • Other Forms of Cubism

    • Futurism and Constructivism developed from Cubism in Italy and Russia respectively.
    • Futurism was an Italian movement that emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future such as speed, technology, youth and violence, as well as objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city.
    • Differentiate the artistic styles of Futurism and Constructivism from their Cubist origins.

  • Preservation and Restoration

    • Preservation and restoration is a profession devoted to the conservation of cultural heritage, such as works of art, for future generations.
    • Preservation and restoration is a profession devoted to the conservation of cultural heritage, such as works of art, for future generations.

  • Cluny

    • Cluny Abbey, first built in 910 in Romanesque style, influenced future architecture in Western Europe into the twelfth century.

  • Vorticism

    • The Vorticism group began with the Rebel Art Centre established by Lewis as a break with other traditional schools, and had its intellectual and artistic roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism, and Futurism.
    • Lewis saw Vorticism as an independent alternative to Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism.
    • Though the style grew out of Cubism, it is more closely related to Futurism in its embrace of dynamism, the machine age, and all things modern.
    • However, Vorticism diverged from both Cubism and Futurism in the way it tried to capture movement in an image.

  • Sculpture

    • Modernist sculpture movements include Cubism, Geometric abstraction, De Stijl, Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Formalism Abstract expressionism, Pop-Art, Minimalism, Land art, and Installation art.

  • Primitivism and Cubism

    • Particular offshoots beyond France included the movements of Futurism, Suprematism, Dada, Constructivism and De Stijl, which all developed in response to Cubism.
    • And just as in painting, it became a pervasive influence and contributed fundamentally to Constructivism and Futurism.

  • Green Architecture: The Future of Architecture

  • Dover Castle in England

    • The tunnels built during the Napoleonic Wars held future significance.

  • Modern Sculpture

  • The Qin Dynasty

    • Despite its rapid end, the Qin Dynasty influenced future Chinese empires, particularly the Han, and the European name for China is thought to be derived from it.