Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 2: Modern Era (1850–1949)

1909

Manifesto of Futurism Published by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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Full newspaper front page, headed Le Figaro, with the Futurist Manifesto filling its first three columns.
Le Figaro, front page of February 20, 1909, with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto. Facsimile reproduced by SPES-Salimbeni, Florence, 1980, edited by Luciano Caruso. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Le Figaro. Facsimile: SPES-Salimbeni, edited by Luciano Caruso, 1980. Digital source: Fondazione Memofonte. Image source.

Marinetti’s manifesto called for artists to embrace the aesthetic language of technology and industrialization in their practice. Frank Popper considered Futurism (in addition to Dadaism and Constructivism) the most influential movement in the first quarter of the twentieth century on electronic art. Popper elaborates: “Futurism, besides its exaltation of dynamism and speed, attempted to find abstract equivalents for all the forms and elements in the universe and advocate the fusion of art and science.”

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Frank Popper

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Futurism

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abstraction, art and science, dynamism, Futurism, industrialization, manifestos, speed, technology
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Frank Popper
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Electronic Art, Manifesto of Futurism

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