What is future art?

Answer 1

Futurism was an avant-garde movement which was launched in Italy, in 1909, although parallel movements arose in Russia, England and elsewhere. It was one of the first important modern art movements not centred in Paris - one reason why it is not taken seriously in France. Futurism exalted the dynamism of the modern world, especially its science and technology. Futurist ideology influenced all types of art. It began in literature but spread to every medium, including painting, sculpture, industrial design, architecture, cinema and music. However, most of its major exponents were painters. It ceased to be an aesthetic force in 1915, shortly after the start of the First World War, but lingered in Italy until the 1930s.

The Futurist painters were searching for new visual approaches to express the typical character of modern time, especially in the modern city. The movements and speed of trams, cars and the people in the cities was for them the challenge to visualize in a way that the spectator on his turn could experience this.

They went even further than that. Futurist painters wanted to pull the spectator in the painting, you could say. They didn't accept the distance between the art and the spectator any more, and this was their vivid critic on Cubism. the Futurist wanted to push the spectator to move.

Another important aspect of Futurism was the new sensing that everything in the world is connected and mixed. They wanted to destroy the boundaries between things which kept them too separated. Here a quote of Boccioni and other painters:

"The sixteen people around you in a rolling omnibus are in turn and at the same time one, ten, four, three; they are motionless and they change places; they come and go, bound into the street, are suddenly swallowed up by the sunshine, then come back and sit before you., like persistent symbols of universal vibration. How often have we not seen upon the cheek of the person with whom we are talking the horse which we passes at the end of the street.

from 'Manifesto of Futurist Painters', Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo, 1912; as quoted in "Futurism", ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 146

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