Futurism - Tate Gallery

Futurism has been an art movement that I have always taken great interest in and that’s why I took the opportunity to visit the recent Tate Modern exhibition. Futurism shaped twentieth century art and contemporary art in general. Futurism was all about progression into the future and rejection of the past, however towards the end of the movement it unfortunately became coupled with fascism and war.

Before the unfortunate demise of the movement the surface appearance seemed to relate to cubism, but this was probably more coincidence than similar intentions, because the manifestos for each movement were different.

As can be seen in the work of Umberto Boccioni, futurism celebrated the movement of machinery and people, it seemed to capture and rejoice each frame. For a time when photography was not prevalent, a great job was done of imagining frames and the fluidity of movement.

I have taken inspiration from the initial futurist movement in its way of making observations of objects and presenting it in a conceptualised way. Although this is an old movement it is important to note its successes and indeed its downfall.