Futurism
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Summary
Futurism is an art movement[1]. Futurism ranks in the top 3% of art movement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,894 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Influenced by: cubism[3]
- Country: Italy[4], Russia[5], Poland[6]
- Founder: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti[7]
- Commons category: Futurism[8]
- Inception: 1909[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Futurism[10]
- Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11]
- Partially coincident with: futurist architecture[12], Russian Futurism[13], futurism[14]
- Has effect: Dada[15], surrealism[16], vorticism[17], cubism[18]
- Different from: Futurians[19], futures studies[20]
- Significant person: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti[21], Carlo Carrà[22], Umberto Boccioni[23], Giacomo Balla[24], Gino Severini[25]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]
Why It Matters
Futurism has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Futurism is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]
Futurism has been cited as an influence by Art Deco[29], an art style[30], in France[31], founded in 1910[32]; vorticism[33], an art movement[34], in United Kingdom[35], founded in 1912[36]; Russian Futurism[37], an art movement[38]; Precisionism[39], a painting movement[40]; Rayonism[41], an art movement[42]; and neo-primitivism[43], an art movement[44], in Russian Empire[45], founded in 1913[46].
FAQs
Who did Futurism influence?
Futurism has been cited as an influence by Art Deco[29], vorticism[33], Russian Futurism[37], and Precisionism[39].