Futurism Recap

When did Futurism begin?

• 2019

• 1919

• 1909

• 1944

A key focus of the Futurists was the depiction of...

• movement/ dynamism

• freedom and human rights

• emotion

• war and terror

Answer explanation

The group developed a number of novel techniques to express speed and motion, including blurring, repetition, and the use of lines of force.

Dynamism, a term often tied to the Italian Futurists, is applied to both abstract and figurative works that suggest movement and energy.

Which of these artists are key artists in Futurism?

• Umberto Boccioni, Joseph Stella and Gino Severini

• Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Julian Opie

• Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas

• David Hockney and Henry Moore

This is an image of...

• a shadow of a person and their dog.

• a person with multiple legs holding a lead of a dog who also has multiple legs.

• a man, as he walks his small black Dachshund down a city sidewalk.

• a woman, as she walks her small black Dachshund down a city sidewalk.

Answer explanation

In creating this image, Balla drew upon chronophotography. The chronophotographic gun, allowed successive movements to be depicted in one photograph. This is one of a number of ways that the Futurists tried to capture movement on canvas

The fact that the person in the image is wearing heels, suggests the person in the image is a woman.

The use of multiplication and motion effects was a technique which was new, and it had not been seen much before the Futurism movement. What else is novel about this painting?

• an image with a dog in it.

• an abrupt close-up.

• an image with limited colour.

• the painting actually moves.

Answer explanation

Balla takes the kind of subject that Impressionism had specialised in...but he picks out only a single detail, an almost randomly chosen clip, and makes it the focus of the whole picture...a trivial subject is made into the main event".

Who created this painting?

• Balla

• Severini

• Carra

• Boccioni

Marinetti coined the word Futurism to...

• reflect his love of traditional art of the past.

• reflect his hatred of sculptures.

• reflect his goal of discarding the art of the past.

• reflect his goal of celebrating change, originality, and innovation in culture and society.

Answer explanation

Marinetti's manifesto glorified the new technology of cars and the beauty of their speed, power, and movement.