Jesus Vazquez ARTH 204 11-12-13 Professor Gomez Futurist Manifesto Futurism had an aggressive way of getting its radical points and ideas across to those brave enough to at least listen. The radical nature of futurists was a means to an end; an end to all past forms of established art and forms of thinking in order to create a completely new and truly pure art full of life and intensity. The Futurist movement took an aggressive approach to the creation of new art and departure from the old, dull previous forms of art. Instead of being calculative like previous artist, futurist were abruptly spontaneous; thus, unleashing one’s wild, animalistic side of nature. Futurism was just like any other modernist movement who sought to achieve true pure form of art; however, futurists believed that a new, pure form of art was achievable only through exciting and violent spurts of creation and action. These attributes of excitement and aggression were attributed to the youth, for it is the youth who has more life. It is the youth who can live in the moment without the care of future consequence. Even members of the futurist movement acknowledged that they themselves would soon become old; thus, rendering them useless to the futurist movement. And although new futurist members might look up to them, it was still their responsibility to destroy and kill them (I’m pretty sure this was metaphorical). Futurist members realized that soon they would become old and established like the old classical art they detested so
much, and the only way to move forward, was through violence, cruelty, and injustice; everything that went against the old established art of the time. Eventually the futurist movement, if it had survived long enough, would try to “kill� the past futurist movement through the same means that the old movement did with the sophisticated art in museums and galleries.