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The Futurist Manifesto

2. Published in the French newspaper Le Figaro on Feb. 20th , 1909, by Filippo Tommaso
Marinetti, an Italian poet and writer, the Futurist Manifesto was one of the first documents to
celebrate the automobile as an object of beauty and to cite speed and acceleration as aesthetic
elements. We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the
beauty of speed, Marinetti proclaimed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great
tubes like serpents with explosive breath a roaring motor car which seems to run on
machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace, he continued in the most
memorable passage.
3. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
4. The Futurist Manifesto initiated an artistic philosophy, Futurism, that was a rejection of the
past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry; it was also an
advocation of the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy.
5. The following are some of the theses in the Futurist Manifesto: ! We intend to sing the love of
danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness. ! Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential
elements of our poetry. ! We intend to exalt aggresive action, a feverish insomnia, the racers
stride, the mortal leap, the punch and the slap. ! We affirm that the worlds magnificence has
been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose bonnet is adorned with
great pipes, like serpents of explosive breatha roaring car that seems to ride on grapeshot is
more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
6. ! Except in struggle, there is no more beauty. No work without an aggressive character can
be a masterpiece. Poetry must be conceived as a violent attack on unknown forces, to reduce
and prostrate them before man. ! We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!... Why
should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the
Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have
created eternal, omnipresent speed.
7. ! We will glorify warthe worlds only hygiene militarism, patriotism, the destructive
gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman. ! We will
destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every
opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice.
8. Machine + War - Woman = Futurism
9. Futurism became an international art movement since then. It was a refreshing contrast to the
weepy sentimentalism of Romanticism. The Futurists loved speed, noise, machines, pollution,
and cities; they embraced the exciting new world. The Futurist manifestos (on painting,
sculpture, music) show us an alternative view to fearing and attacking technology.
10. The Manifesto of Futurist Painters
11. The cry of rebellion which we utter associates our ideals with those of the Futurist poets.
These ideals were not invented by some aesthetic clique. They are an expression of a violent
desire which boils in the veins of every creative artist today. We are sickened by the foul
laziness of artists, who, ever since the sixteenth century, have endlessly exploited the glories of
the ancient Romans. These are our final conclusions:
12. With our enthusiastic adherence to Futurism, we will: ! Destroy the cult of the past, the
obsession with the ancients, pedantry and academic formalism. ! Totally invalidate all kinds of
imitation. ! Elevate all attempts at originality, however daring, however violent. ! Regard art
critics as useless and dangerous. ! Rebel against the tyranny of words: Harmony and good
taste. ! Sweep the whole field of art clean of all themes and subjects which have been used in
the past.
13. Some Futurist painters:
14. Umberto Boccioni (1910)
15. Ugo Gianattasio (1920)
16. Tullio Crali (1932)
17. The dead shall be buried in the earths deepest bowels! The threshold of the future will be
swept free of mummies! Make room for youth, for violence, for daring!
18. Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture
19. ! The aim of sculpture is the abstract reconstruction of the planes and volumes which
determine form, not their figurative value. ! Sculpture cannot make its goal the episodic
reconstruction of reality. ! It is necessary to destroy the pretended nobility of marble and
bronze, and to deny squarely that one must use a single material for a sculptural ensemble. The
sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the
plastic emotion requires it. Here is a modest sample of these materials: glass, wood, cardboard,
cement, iron, horsehair, leather, cloth, mirrors, electric lights, etc.
20. ! It is necessary to proclaim loudly that in the intersection of the planes of a book and the
angles of a table, in the straight lines of a match, in the frame of a window, there is more truth
than in all the tangle of muscles, the breasts and thighs of heroes and Venuses which enrapture
the incurable stupidity of contemporary sculptors. ! One must destroy the systematic use of the
nude and the traditional concept of the statue and the monument.
21. Some Futurist sculptors:
22. Otakar vec (1924)
23. Umberto Boccioni (1913)
24. Giacomo Balla (1915)
25. The Manifesto of Futurist Musicians
26. I appeal to the young. Only they should listen, and only they can understand what I have to
say. Some people are born old, spectres of the past. To them no words or ideas, but a single
injunction: the end. I, who repudiate the title of Maestro as a stigma of mediocrity and ignorance,
hereby confirm my enthusiastic adhesion to Futurism, offering to the young, the bold and the
reckless these my irrevocable conclusions:
27. ! To convince young composers to desert schools, conservatories and musical academies,
and to consider free study as the only means of regeneration. ! To be independent and
resolutely opposed to the criteria of conservatory professors and to those of the debased public.
! To abstain from participating in any competition with the customary closed envelopes and
related admission charges, unmasking the incompetence of juries, which are generally
composed of fools and impotents. ! To provoke in the public an ever-growing hostility towards
the exhumation of old works which prevents the appearance of innovators, to encourage
everything in music that appears original and revolutionary.
28. Luigi Russolo working on his noise experimental music
29. Futurist Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYPXAo1cOA4 https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=VcHJySm7ZO0
30. The legacy of the Futurists lies less in their own art than in the inspiration they provided
designers.
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32. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjgFYQMWtqo
33. Compose a futurist poem using some of the vocabulary below or related vocabulary: !
Speed ! Acceleration ! Car ! Motorbike ! Machinery ! Violence ! Youth ! Industry ! Danger !
Courage ! Audacity ! Aggresive ! To destroy ! Cowardice ! Death ! Reckless
34. Fascist Manifesto
35. The Manifesto of the Italian Fasci of Combat , commonly known as the Fascist Manifesto,
was the initial declaration of the political stance of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento ("Italian
League of Combat"), the movement founded in Milan by Benito Mussolini in 1919 and an early
exponent of Fascism.
36. Benito Mussolini
37. The Fascist Manifesto was written by national syndicalist Alceste De Ambris and Futurist
movement leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
38. It has recently been the 100th anniversary of the Futurist Manifesto
39. The Futurists celebrated speed and power, but they had a short run: World War I soon gave
culture more speed and power than anyone wanted. Several Futurists ended up as disgruntled
fascists.
40. The First World War centenary is the centenary of World War One which starts in 2014 and
will last until 2018.
41. Participating countries ! Australia ! Belgium ! Bosnia and Herzegovina ! Denmark !
France ! New Zealand ! Kenya ! Turkey ! United Kingdom
42. From 2014 to 2018, across the world, nations, communities and individuals of all ages will
come together to mark, commemorate and remember the lives of those who lived, fought and
died in the First World War.
43. Write three sentences with facts you know about nazism and facism, or with your own
opinion about them. What do you know about the First World War? Write five lines.
44. Sources: http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto
http://www.1914.org/