Too Bad They Were All Fascists

  Futurism was an international art movement founded in Italy in 1909.
It unleashed the Future and had it run fast, leaping from the 19th century straight into the 20th.

All of a sudden so much mechanical noise - factory machinery, cars. airplanes. The artist and the poet, unable to fight those, unable to listen to the birds anymore, decide to join and herald the New Era, redefine the concept of Beauty and Truth.

A bunch of young Italian men, headed by F. T. Marinetti, declared war on the Past.
Went overhead and over the scale of ethics and values.
"Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice."

In the end, were they the ones who heralded fascism, or were they proponents, sensors of that submarine of war and destruction?

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posted by Unknown at 4:05 AM