The Italian Futurists were one group of artists
who were doing incredible things in 1913.
Thinking about art as something that had
to be something for the New Century.
Speed, noise, machinery and the city became
a key part of all of their paintings.
Dynamism Of A Soccer Player challenges
any viewer to actually find a soccer player,
two arms, two legs, a face. No way!
Colors and shapes moving, running, kicking,
your eye is brought to the next place,
or a place further down.
And there's only one way, when you look
at a yellow form or a red form,
that you can see that form which is in
relation to the colors circulating around it.
The brush strokes are extremely visible,
they're tangible, it's material.
Photography, which was little more than
half a century old, had an enormous impact.
Eadweard Muybridge did photography
in sequence, [bup, bup, bup, bup],
they wanted to do that in painting, too.
The Futurists believes that part of being
modern was not only painting modern things,
but creating 'a ruckus'.
When their pictures appeared at exhibitions,
they issued Manifestos, they had lectures,
they had performances that absolutely
provoked people in attendance to realizing,
"Wow!", even if we didn't understand the picture,
what we're doing is being a witness
to something that is upsetting centuries
of tradition.