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Futurism   Listen
noun
Futurism  n.  (Painting)
1.
A movement or phase of post-impressionism (which see, below).
2.
A point of view that finds meaning or fulfillment in the future rather than in the past or present. The philosophy of a futurist.





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"Futurism" Quotes from Famous Books



... more or less radical (except the cynical and now somewhat anaemic elders who gave up hope for a world that had ceased to hold out hope to them). The artists were disturbed by futurism and cubism, although as neither paid they were forced to devote the greater part of their inspiration to ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... tasted the sweets of insular renown: he would have had his place in the history of painting, however. The French know enough of Vorticism to know that it is a provincial and utterly insignificant contrivance which has borrowed what it could from Cubism and Futurism and added nothing to either. They like to fancy that the English tradition is that of Gainsborough and Constable, quite failing to realize what havoc has been made of this admirable plastic tradition by that puerile gospel of literary pretentiousness called Pre-Raphaelism. ...
— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell


Words linked to "Futurism" :   futuristic, view, position, perspective, futurist


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