Futurism In The Futurism Movement

Futurism was a movement that is what it says in its’ name, futuristic. Futurism was about bringing all forms of art, such as music, dance, painting, and sculpture together and progressing forward and creating new art with all forms of medium (. The artists of the movement were also focused on what was going on in the world around them and the progression of society itself. With the idea of being futuristic, it was very important among the artist to not dwell in the past while creating their art but to look forward. If a work of art was to represent the past than it is not a piece meant for the Futurism Movement. While artist were in the process of creating work, the process should be one that is never done before. While most artist find inspiration

The idea of making a painting that in a way can reflect another form of art is something that truly reflects what the futurism movement was aiming for. This painting is only one color, which is not unusual for the movement, but it is also not the typical choice for most futuristic pieces of work. In most of the works there is multiple use of color and it is not necessarily color that would be typical for what the work is displaying. This type of color use is called is non-objective color. It was common among a lot of avant garde movements taking place around the same time as the futurism movement.

Non-objective color was not the trendiest ways to use color at the time and was highly rejected among critics, but because of the continued use of it, non-objective color started to become more accepted and therefore Futurism started to become more popular. Overall Balla’s piece is a prime example of futurism because of the way the piece shows motion. But not only does it show motion, but it shows moving forward. While it shows this physically, in a more interpretative way shows the turn of the century progressing forward and not looking back towards the past for guidance, but rather to keep moving