Facts about Futurism Movement

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   Architecture was embraced by the Futurism movement through Antonio Sant'Elia, whose visionary drawings depicted towering cities of glass, steel, and concrete.

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   Italian Futurism movement painters including Giacomo Balla explored the representation of light, movement, and sound through a technique called divisionism.

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   Glorifying speed, technology, and violence, Futurism movement artists rejected museums and libraries, which Marinetti famously called 'cemeteries' in his writings.

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   Umberto Boccioni, a leading Futurism movement artist, expressed dynamic motion and energy in his 1913 sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.

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   The Futurism movement was launched in 1909 when Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published its founding manifesto on the front page of the French newspaper Le Figaro.

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