1
00:00:03,703 --> 00:00:06,896
The Italian Futurists were one group of artists

2
00:00:06,896 --> 00:00:09,730
who were doing incredible things in 1913.

3
00:00:09,730 --> 00:00:11,418
Thinking about art as something that had

4
00:00:11,418 --> 00:00:13,326
to be something for the New Century.

5
00:00:13,326 --> 00:00:17,388
Speed, noise, machinery and the city became

6
00:00:17,388 --> 00:00:20,427
a key part of all of their paintings.

7
00:00:20,427 --> 00:00:22,482
Dynamism Of A Soccer Player challenges

8
00:00:22,482 --> 00:00:24,030
any viewer to actually find a soccer player,

9
00:00:24,030 --> 00:00:26,351
two arms, two legs, a face. No way!

10
00:00:26,351 --> 00:00:28,176
Colors and shapes moving, running, kicking,

11
00:00:28,176 --> 00:00:29,562
your eye is brought to the next place,

12
00:00:29,562 --> 00:00:33,198
or a place further down.

13
00:00:33,198 --> 00:00:35,849
And there's only one way, when you look

14
00:00:35,849 --> 00:00:37,445
at a yellow form or a red form,

15
00:00:37,445 --> 00:00:39,721
that you can see that form which is in

16
00:00:39,721 --> 00:00:42,025
relation to the colors circulating around it.

17
00:00:42,025 --> 00:00:46,221
The brush strokes are extremely visible,

18
00:00:46,221 --> 00:00:49,063
they're tangible, it's material.

19
00:00:49,063 --> 00:00:50,206
Photography, which was little more than

20
00:00:50,206 --> 00:00:51,982
half a century old, had an enormous impact.

21
00:00:51,982 --> 00:00:53,976
Eadweard Muybridge did photography

22
00:00:53,976 --> 00:00:55,801
in sequence, [bup, bup, bup, bup],

23
00:00:55,801 --> 00:00:58,005
they wanted to do that in painting, too.

24
00:00:58,005 --> 00:01:00,895
The Futurists believes that part of being

25
00:01:00,895 --> 00:01:02,812
modern was not only painting modern things,

26
00:01:02,812 --> 00:01:05,343
but creating 'a ruckus'.

27
00:01:05,343 --> 00:01:07,927
When their pictures appeared at exhibitions,

28
00:01:07,927 --> 00:01:10,224
they issued Manifestos, they had lectures,

29
00:01:10,224 --> 00:01:12,478
they had performances that absolutely

30
00:01:12,478 --> 00:01:14,642
provoked people in attendance to realizing,

31
00:01:14,642 --> 00:01:17,144
"Wow!", even if we didn't understand the picture,

32
00:01:17,144 --> 00:01:20,475
what we're doing is being a witness

33
00:01:20,475 --> 00:01:22,470
to something that is upsetting centuries

34
00:01:22,470 --> 00:01:26,032
of tradition.

35
00:01:26,032 --> 00:01:29,668


36
00:01:29,668 --> 00:01:32,169


37
00:01:32,169 --> 00:01:36,675