10. Futurism
Futurism: Italy, 1909 â 16
Futurism was an Italian movement founded in 1909 by the poet Filippo
Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), the painters Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)
and Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), and other artists inspired by Cubism
and the motion photography of Ătienne-Jules Marey. The core themes
of Futurist thought and art were machines and speed.