Movements in Modern Art: Futurism

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Futurism, the brainchild in 1909 of Italian writer and cultural impressario F.T. Marinetti, was the defining avant-garde art movement of the early twentieth century. Inspired by the cities, technology, speed and latent violence of th world around them, as well as by the ideas of thinkers such as Bergson and Nietzsche, the Futurists created an art and ideaology for their heroic and highly politicised vision of modernity.