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Description: | image: Pastiche futurist drawing
text: FUTURISTA Visione Dinamica della Befana.1915
Futurism was one of the earliest avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century. Founded in 1909 by the poet,
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), it exalted speed and action, violence and conflict, a hatred of the past; a passion for the beauty
of the industrial age and a loathing for the supposed stagnation of Italian culture.
This satirical drawing employs the typical language of Futurist painting, in particular, that of artist Gino Severini (1883-1966). The
violent quasi-abstract composition includes the national colours of France, Belgium and Germany together with the legends Misery, Snow,
Revelry (the latter symbolised by an upturned Chianti bottle). Amidst the explosions and the blare of trumpets, an artillery shell arrives,
bearing Marinetti's own name. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Neutrality of & 1914 = 1915 satirical First World War & Italy | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gigli, Giulio | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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