Filippo Marinetti in his artist quotes on Futurism in Italy - free resource, Italian art history

Filippo Marinetti in quotes - the artist explains and describes his ideas & goals on Futurism art - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in Italian art history

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Marinetti was a poet, writer and editor in the avantgarde art-scene of Italy. He founded Futurism with his first ‘Futurist Manifesto’ in 1909, in ‘Le Figaro’.
His artist quotes reveal that violence, dynamics, rolling traffic and moving masses in the modern city were his most important inspirations. This was Marinetti’s basic ground to develop Futurism as a new art movement in Italy. He demanded also the start of an Italian Futurist visual art which could express these new phenomena of the modern cities in that time! So he became the inspiration for several Futurist painter artist.

It was a few years later that Marinetti found in 1911 his Futurist companions in the younger artists, Boccioni, Carrà, Severini and Russolo, a. o… They published a common ‘Futurist Manifesto’. In 1918 Marinetti connected Futurism closely with Italian Fascism.
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Some selected quotes of Italian artist, poet and writer Filippo Marinetti - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft, of industry, of trade, of the sciences, of electricity.’ - quote of Marinetti, in a review of his ‘Poesia’, 1905

• ’…there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a sense of aggression can never be a masterpiece.’ - Marinetti’s quote, from his first ‘Futurist Manifesto’, Italy, 1909

• ’Try to live the war pictorially studying it in all its mechanical forms (military trains, fortifications, wounded men, ambulances, hospitals, parades, etc).’ - quote from Marinetti’s letter to Severini, Nov. 1914

• ’With Futurism, instead, art is turning into art-action, which is to say, into will, optimism, aggression, possession, penetration, delight, brutal reality within art,… …geometrical splendor of forces, projections forward. Thus, art is becoming Presence, new Object…’ - quote from ‘The Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe’, March, 1915
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  selection of free art-resources on Italian artist and writer Marinetti:

  • biographical notes on Marinetti, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Marinetti, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]