20/09/2009 Futurism af the London Modern Tate
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"We will glorify war - the world's only hygiene - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of anarchists, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for women."
Futurism was a very controversial avant-garde art movement from 1900 to 1915 from Italy which was very influential in Paris before Russia and London. Most artists at that time were interested by the movement but didn't want being associate with it. Therefore, artists initiate their own movement, French Cubists: Orphism; Russian: Cubo-Futurism; British: Vorticism. The Futurism movement stop at the beginning of the first World War when most Italien artists were arrested ...
This summer the London Modern Tate celebrated the centuary birthday of the Manifesto of Futurism with an exhibition.
I was actually unexpectlingly amazed by this exhibition which gave me a lot of clues for the transition between Expresionism and Surrealism. It discover some great artists: Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini and my favorite Umberto Boccioni. Very colorful and kind of emotionnaly dynamic.
