Terms like Futurism and Futurist have got in these days a general meaning thta the common use applies equally to architecture, a furniture, to an object. A meta meaning widely used by marketing and by certain cultural environments, with strong identity and a modernity that has permitted it to exceed easily the twentieth century, to collect more and new appreciations, ideas, connections and, most importantly, to demonstrate a remarkable ability to adapt itself to new cultural and technological habitas.
But when the term Futurism was born from the great imagination of Marinetti, it had a meaning and a precise content and designated a cultural movement with a well defined program: in contrast to other groups and modern art movements such as Impressionism, Fauvism , Cubism, who had accepted or adopted the definition attributed to them by critics, often less benevolent, Futurism was baptized by itself, and has spread actively and in every way its own ideas. We are thus faced with a movement that anticipates much certain music scenes (industrial, ambient, free jazz) and culture-media (Fluxus), characterized from the outset by a strong awareness by the artists and by a pragmatic program.
The movement had its entertainer in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), poet and narrator of dual culture, Italian and French and well versed in poetics of the Seventeenth Century, in particular the Simbolism.
When in 1909, Marinetti wrote the first Futurism’s Manifesto, published in Le Figaro on 20 February, the poet has to his credit a number of poems collections in Italian and French and direct the important magazine in Milan “Poesia” carachterized by the imprint of symbolist.
In that Manifesto, Marinetti presents a program violently polemical, with an integral renewal of the dominant culture, based on new principles, consistent with modern life and the industrial society.
But when the term Futurism was born from the great imagination of Marinetti, it had a meaning and a precise content and designated a cultural movement with a well defined program: in contrast to other groups and modern art movements such as Impressionism, Fauvism , Cubism, who had accepted or adopted the definition attributed to them by critics, often less benevolent, Futurism was baptized by itself, and has spread actively and in every way its own ideas. We are thus faced with a movement that anticipates much certain music scenes (industrial, ambient, free jazz) and culture-media (Fluxus), characterized from the outset by a strong awareness by the artists and by a pragmatic program.
The movement had its entertainer in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), poet and narrator of dual culture, Italian and French and well versed in poetics of the Seventeenth Century, in particular the Simbolism.
When in 1909, Marinetti wrote the first Futurism’s Manifesto, published in Le Figaro on 20 February, the poet has to his credit a number of poems collections in Italian and French and direct the important magazine in Milan “Poesia” carachterized by the imprint of symbolist.
In that Manifesto, Marinetti presents a program violently polemical, with an integral renewal of the dominant culture, based on new principles, consistent with modern life and the industrial society.
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