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“We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice.” (F.T. Marinetti, “The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” 1909) Futurism was an artist movement that emerged in the 1910’s. With the leading artist being; Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini. Futurism is the most important Italian avant-garde movement of the 20th century. Unlike many other modern art movement, futurism was not immediately labelled or identified with a distinctive style. (thesis statement)
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Bridget Riley’s geometric paintings urge the viewer to look closer on how it feels to look. Her paintings of the 1960s became synonymous with the movement of op art, which exploited optical illusions to make the two-dimensional surface of the painting, look ex catching and not as it seems, makes the painting seem to move, change colour, vibrate and twinkle. Riley is grounded in her own optical illusions and experiences, but not colour theories, math, or stripes, and curves in various way and configurations. Exploring the lengths of physical and psychological reactions of the eye. Her paintings inspired textiles design and psychedelic posters over the decades, but her objectives have been to interrogate what and how we see and to provoke both uncertainty and
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Boccioni was important not only in developing the movements theories, but also in introducing the visual innovations that led to the dynamic, cubist like style now closely associate with it. Boccioni first emerged as a painter, later producing some significant futurist sculptures. He died while volunteering in the Italian army, aged only thirsty three, making him emblematic of the futurists’ celebration of the machine and violent destructive force of