The movement of Futurism was an artistic and social movement which was launched in Paris (even though it is completely Italian) with a document "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" published in Le Figaro on 20 February, 1909. The Manifesto was written by the Italian poet Flippo Tomasso Marinetti."Then the silence deepened. But, as we listened to the old canal muttering its feeble prayers and the creaking bones of sickly palaces above their damp green beards, under the windows we suddenly heard the famished roar of automobiles."
We affirm that the world's splendor has been enriched by a new beauty, the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath - a roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot - is more beautiful that the "Victory of Samothrace."
I wrote some of the passages from the manifesto which I find very important to summarize the whole idea. Futurism, in fact, was against the idea of the Italian past. They celebrated the love of speed, technology and violence. For them, what was essential was the technological triumph of man over nature.
One of the important artist of the movement was the sculptor and the painter Umberto Boccioni with his work Unique of Continuity in Past (1913). Boccioni's works represented a style of movement and a new dynamic concept. He wanted shapes to suggest motion and movement. The shapes created by Boccioni is seen as the precursor to the aerodynamics elements used today in sport design: sport cars, motor cycles, helmets and ski boots. They influenced future aerodynamics shapes, polimaterics, style and inventions which I find very interesting.
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