![]() By 1912 the Futurist movement already had considerable momentum and when Italian Fascism gathered pace in 1921, the artists had already escaped into the future with their art. Settimio Rometti, founder of Rometti Ceramiche, was also one of the first in Italy to break away from the figurative style of the late Renaissance and Art Nouveau traditions and take up the innovative ideas of the avant garde in international art and design, created by such artists as Corrado Cagli, Dante Baldelli, Mario Di Giacomo, Giacomo Balla, and Fortunato Depero. ![]() The early Futurist artists that took up the cause were Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni and Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini. Just as Art Nouveau had made a deliberate break away from classical art, Futurism went to another level in renouncing the classical romanticism and replacing it with an audacious social and artistic revolution in culture and urbanism. Even gastronomy, poetry and graphic design were given attention. The reality of this quickly changing world was to be expressed by an omnipresent dynamism. The Futurist movement celebrated the dawning of a new world featuring themes of motion, speed and technology, by eagerly embracing new interpretations of sculpture, painting, music, architecture, ceramics and fashion with rampant colours and explosive energy. This was all stirred by the launch in 1909 of the Futurist Manifesto by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The avant garde, futurist movement began in Italy with grandiose aspirations of shaking Italy out of its cultural malaise, which had hardly changed from the classical era of 16th century, to embrace a new modernism. This was provoked by the political upheavals at this time and new technological advances in communication, travel and mass production, all adding to the perception of increased speed. Reconstructing the Universe at the Guggenheim, 2014įuturism was conceived in a period at the beginning of the twentieth century where there was an unprecedented shift in technology and innovation in pursuit of modernity. Umberto Boccioni Futurist painting, ‘ Dynamism of a Soccer Player’ and sculpture ‘ Unique Forms of Continuity in Space’ ![]() ‘Aeropittura’-Fillia (Luigi-Colombo), 1932 When Aristarkh Lentulov returned from Paris in 1913 and exhibited his works in Moscow, the Russian Futurist painters adopted the forms of Cubism and combined them with the Italian Futurists’ representation of movement. ‘The Knife Grinder’ – (Principle of Glittering) by Kazimir Malevich ‘Marcia su Roma’– C.Cagli – Rometti Italia ![]()
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