Futurism

@alperenzl

In order to understand the futurism movement, first of all, it is necessary to look at the general situation of Italy and Europe. After the 19th century, technology changed with extreme speed, cars, planes and machines were created. This extremely rapid development and change is not only related to technology, but also a rapid change is experienced in terms of ideas. Italy, on the other hand, was not a country that could keep up with these developments, its infrastructure was weak and it could not industrialize.

Futurism comes from the Italian 'futurismo' meaning futurism. Futurism wants to get rid of the past. As the past cannot keep up with the pace of the future and the present, ties with it must be severed and destroyed, so one of the leading futurists, Marinetti, goes so far as to want to demolish cemeteries and burn libraries. Futurists talk about building new cities, getting rid of forms in poetry, and portraying movement in paintings, the only thing worth painting for them is movement and creation. We can explain their passion for speed by seeing speed and movement as a solution to Italy's backwardness, futurists are fascinated with innovation and technology.

The futurist movement despises femininity, and they talk about the fact that society has a feminine structure in some periods and a masculine structure in some periods. In times of war, masculinity predominates in society, while in times of peace, femininity dominates. For futurists who bless war, masculinity is paramount.

They want to apply social Darwinism not only internationally, but also to their own society, and even oppose the construction of hospitals. For futurists, if there is an ideal to be believed, it is technology and speed, and beauty should not be sought separately in art. The beautiful thing was speed, combat and movement. A race car was better than an Ancient Greek statue.

'Courage, audacity and defiance will be the essential qualities of our poetry. To this day, literature has been in a thoughtful stillness, an ecstasy, a sleep. We'll line it up with offensive action, a feverish drowsiness, racer's speed, deadly jumps, punches and slaps. We, who glorify war, the world's only means of cleansing, patriotism, the destructive actions of freedom fighters, and lofty ideals worth dying for, despise women.'