Futurism movement
As the movement’s name show the Futurists wanted a new futuristic concept in arts and philosophy they didn’t want to look at the past anymore but turned their attention on futuristic ideas, technology, industry and new thinking. Paintings and sculptures done with the futurist ideals in mind tend to be chaotic and unclear, the figures and paintings giving the impression of speed, violence and insanity. Apart from painting and sculptures, the movement encompassed all forms other forms of arts like literature, theatre and performing arts.
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Futurism used shapes and repetitive lines in their artwork, they also used angles in their artwork and created abnormal objects for those times, like a bike, and planes, speed etc. Brilliant colors and flowing brush strokes also additionally were creating the false impression of high speed movement. Marinetti wanted to fully break from what was ‘old’ and wanted to show the path to the future. To do this, the futurists had to challenge all the old traditions and the cultural ideas the people had in their minds.
{draw:frame} The Futurism movement influenced lots of people and their distinctive ideas had spread in many countries around Europe, especially Russia. The Russian Futurists took more interests in music rather than sculptures and performing arts and literature.
As one can notice in the left sample diagrams the Russian Futurism changed to different ideas rather than entirely copying, the Italian Futurists. Instead of speed, engineering and technology, they worked with shapes, people, yet still violence.
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When their movement died, their ideas did not, and a new group in the late sixties called the Punks, from Great Britain had taken several ideas from the Futurists. The Punks, like the Futurists, combined drama, music, violence, assaulted the audience and practiced politics and provocation. Their performances were violent, creating huge fans and...