1) Italian Futurists were fascinated with politics. First of all, any art movement is a protest towards some social, governmental or political issues. Even though futurism in sense of art embraces lots of sources, one of the main one is to challenge society and discuss on politics in a special art way. This movement was all about depiction of speed, youth and technology. It is said that it had some influence on future art movements confronting government such as Dada, Surrealism and so forth.
2) Boccioni was interested not in construction of the body but construction of the action of the body. Unfortunately, this sculptor lived a short life, but his life contributed a lot into development of futurism and modern art. He was focused on the dynamics of a human body and his vision of art changed many artists' visions towards shape and form.
3) The work of the Futurists was a manifestation of authoritarian politics. The very first signs of enacting authoritarian politics was a manifesto written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. This manifest contained artistic philosophy, the main characteristics of Futurism, and assertions that Italy must be immediately modernized in cultural and technical ways.
4) Marinetti, the founder of Futurism, hated the past. The manifest which has just been mentioned above was actually devoted to the main principles and functions of Futurism; Marinetti claimed that Futurism is a rejection of the past, meaning that the past must not be preserved as there must be a way for new developments and for new steps into the future.
5) One of their major themes was movement and speed. These two main characteristics were depicted and followed by almost all of the art categories: it was shown in painting, sculpture, graphic design, filmmaking, fashion and literature. Movement and speed are associated with tecnological progress which will get rid of all the vestiges of the past.
6) White on White was the pinnacle of the suprematist movement. This painting is known at the most prominent work of the Russian suprematism. It was painted by Kazimir Malevich who actually was the founder of the term of suprematism and of its movement. This art movement is focused on basic geometric forms painted in a limited range of colors.
7) Kasimir Malevich’s famous 1915 painting of a square was the color black. Black Square is considered to be the iconic work of Kasimir Malevich. Some art critics find this picture pointless and, while others believe that 'the Black Square is meant to evoke the experience of pure non-objectivity in the white emptiness of a liberated nothing'. In order to get to know the motives of such a painting it is better to get to know its creator's biography.
8) Malevich believed his colored shapes could convey the awe of religious experience. Malevich once said: "Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes that it can exist, in and for itself, without "things" ''. In these lines he wanted to convey a message that his art movement is meant to protest against religious doctrines.
9) Malevich said that the War was not important in art. Even though the suprematist movement as introduced during the First World War, Makevich thought that war affects people in bad ways while art can affect people only in good ways. Therefore, art, and humanity in general do not need to have wars in order to understand what is peace. Art can teach people what is peace.
10) Malevich believed that the only thing that mattered was object feeling. If you have a look at the definition of suprematism, you will see that this term refers to an abstract art that is meant to reflect "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling". As told by Malevich, people could get the object feeling when they look at the works of suprematism because they could easily perceive the figures with which they were already familiar.
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