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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 had

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to be something for the New Century.

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Speed, noise, machinery and the city became

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a key part of all of their paintings.

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Dynamism Of A Soccer Player challenges

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any viewer to actually find a soccer player,

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two arms, two legs, a face. 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 a place further down.

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And there's only one way, when you look

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at a yellow form or a red form,

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that you can see that form which is in

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relation to the colors circulating around it.

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The brush strokes are extremely visible,

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they're tangible, it's material.

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Photography, which was little more than

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half a century old, had an enormous impact.

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Eadweard Muybridge did photography

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in sequence, [bup, bup, bup, bup],

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they wanted to do that in painting, too.

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The Futurists believes that part of being

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modern 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

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provoked 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

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to something that is upsetting centuries

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of tradition.

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