114 years ago, the manifesto of a new movement - futurism - was published

Paris - They broke conventions and celebrated movement, technique, and speed. Such were the adherents of a movement whose manifesto was published on February 20, 1909, in the newspaper Le Figaro and which was termed futurism due to its distance from everything past and its celebration of everything new. It survived only twenty years and was almost exclusively Italian, but it also influenced other movements, including surrealism and dadaism. The most famous representative of futurism was Umberto Boccioni, but some works by Bohumil Kubišta, Otto Gutfreund, or Kazimir Malevich can also be considered futurist.
     "Despise all imitation, glorify all forms of originality, however bold and aggressive they may be, consider artistic criticism unnecessary and harmful, and rise against the tyranny of the words harmony and good taste," such were some of the premises of the Italian futurists, whose father was the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Many of them also supported the ideas of fascism, which they believed could be a means to revive the then industrially backward Italy.
     Futurism definitively vanished with Marinetti's death in 1944. With artistic works that were later and even today referred to as futurist, the Italian movement from the early twentieth century shares only the celebration of the dynamics of the technical world and industrial society.