Futurism Essay

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Today, it is still possible to see the elements of the futurist art movement influencing and shaping our world. Futurism describes something that is futuristic. It not only conveys an idea of extraordinary technological development in every social and aesthetic respect but also directly implants people’s perception through emotions and feeling, giving them a new vision of life. Obviously, the movement of futurism suggests the notion of a segment of time from the past, present, and future.

In the essay, I will look at futurist aesthetics, practices, and conceptual representation in the medium of art, where mainly focusing on the interiority of abstraction, motion (rhythm/repetition), continuity through the depiction of text, movement, and architecture that influencing us today.

The Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who is the founder of Futurist Manifesto. He published the manifesto on the front page of the most prestigious …show more content…

We no longer believe in the monumental, the heavy and static, and have enriched our sensibilities with a taste for lightness, transience, and practicality.” 9 The practices of futurism in architecture like using steel, concrete, and glass to express the modernism in the 20th century. However, by comparing today’s futurist architecture practices and conceptual representation, the form and structure become more and more complex due to human new innovation and technology. “The Plug-in City” in Figure 5, designed by Peter Cook in 1964, who is the member of Archigram. It is a digital drawing that proposes a suppositional city with a modular housing which shows a new generation. “Archigram’s radical suggestion to reveal infrastructural elements and reverse traditional building hierarchies,” 10 and they believe there is no limitation of the form and structure, but also the selection of materiality has different symbolic

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