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The Italian Futurists were one group of artists

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who were doing incredible things in 1913,

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thinking about art as something that

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had to be for the new century.

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Speed, noise, machinery, and the city

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became a key part of all of their paintings.

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“Dynamism of a Soccer Player”

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challenges any viewer to

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actually find a soccer player

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– two arms, two legs, a face.

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No way!

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Colors and shapes moving, running, kicking.

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Your eye is brought to the next place

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or to a place further down.

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And there is only one way when you look at a yellow form

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or a red form, that you can see that form

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which is in relation to the colors circulating around it.

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The brushstrokes are extremely visible.

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They’re tangible.

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It’s material.

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Photography, which was little more

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than half a century old,

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had an enormous impact.

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Eadweard Muybridge did photography in sequence

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bop bop bop bop bop.

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They wanted to do that in painting too.

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The Futurists believed that part of being modern

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was not only painting modern things,

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but creating a ruckus.

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When their pictures appeared at exhibitions,

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they issued manifestos, they had lectures,

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they had performances that absolutely provoked

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the people in attendance to realizing,

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"Wow! Even if we didn't understand the picture,

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what we're doing is being a witness to something

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that is upsetting centuries of tradition.”

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Sub-titling done by the 8th-graders of ISJA Middle School, Saint-Maximin, France