Futurism

Futurism was launched in 1909 by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, whose manifesto, printed in a Paris newspaper, attacked the past and its museums. In their place the Futurists wanted an art of industry, machines and speed, the energy of modern life. Umberto Boccioni, who met Picasso in Paris in 1911, hangs here beside the Cubists. Futurism began with a manifesto by the poet F. T. Marinetti, printed in a newspaper in 1909, that praised speed, machines and the modern city and called for a break with the past. Painters such as Umberto Boccioni tried to show movement and feeling at once, with figures cut through by lines of force. In Russia, Kazimir Malevich joined its energy with the broken forms of Cubism in what was called Cubo-Futurism. Connected places: Milan · Paris.

• States of Mind: The FarewellsUmberto Boccioni, 1911
• States of Mind: Those Who GoUmberto Boccioni, 1912
• Study for "Fusion of a Head and a Window"Umberto Boccioni, 1912
• Head Against the Light (The Artist's Sister)Umberto Boccioni, 1912
• The Street PaversUmberto Boccioni, 1914
• The Artist's MotherUmberto Boccioni, 1915
• A Peasant Woman Goes for WaterKazimir Malevich, 1913