futurism
[fyoo-chuh-riz-uh m]
- (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of the fine arts developed originally by a group of Italian artists about 1910 in which forms derived chiefly from cubism were used to represent rapid movement and dynamic motion.
- (often initial capital letter) a style of art, literature, music, etc., and a theory of art and life in which violence, power, speed, mechanization or machines, and hostility to the past or to traditional forms of expression were advocated or portrayed.
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Origin of futurism
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Contemporary Examples of futurism
Futurism became less about predicting the future than pandering to those who sought to maintain an expired past.
But futurism and policy stuff was almost absent from her speech.
Models walked through water in structural and sheer garments, evoking both an early tribalism and futurism.
Historical Examples of futurism
This writer begins by expressing his objections to the "principle of Futurism."
Ezra Pound: His Metric and PoetryT. S. Eliot
It may be urged that Blast does not represent Futurism, but Vorticism.
The Book of This and ThatRobert Lynd
Surely here is the home of Post Impressionism and of Futurism.
The Luck of ThirteenJan Gordon
Then the writer reverted to art again and published a book on Cubism and one on Cubism and Futurism.
Idling in ItalyJoseph Collins
Any theory of a disruptive, hurly-burly aspect is grist to the mill of Futurism.
futurism
- an artistic movement that arose in Italy in 1909 to replace traditional aesthetic values with the characteristics of the machine age
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