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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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