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Italian modern and contemporary art

Art of Italy
A collage of Italian art.
Periods
Etruscan
Ancient Roman
Gothic
Renaissance
Mannerism
Baroque
Rococo
Neoclassical and 19th century
Modern and contemporary
Centennial divisions
Trecento - Quattrocento - Cinquecento - Seicento - Settecento
Important art museums
Uffizi - Pinacoteca di Brera - Vatican Museums - Villa Borghese - Sabauda Gallery - Gallerie dell'Accademia - Pitti Palace - Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze - Bargello
Important art festivals
Venice Biennale - Rome Quadriennale
Major works
The Tribute Money (Masaccio) - Botticelli's Venus - Primavera - Mona Lisa - The Last Supper - Annunciation (Leonardo) - Sistine Chapel ceiling - Sistine Madonna - Pietà - The Last Judgment - The Creation of Adam - David (Michelangelo) - The School of Athens - The Battle of San Romano - Venus of Urbino - David (Donatello) - The Calling of St. Matthew - Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Italian artists
Painters - Sculptors - Architects - Photographers - Illustrators
Italian art schools
Bolognese school - Ferrarese school - Forlivese school - Florentine school - Lucchese and Pisan School - Sienese school - Venetian school
Art movements
Renaissance - Mannerism - Baroque - I Macchiaioli - Metaphysical art - Futurism - Arte Povera - Novecento Italiano - Pittura infamante - Purismo - Transavantgarde - Scuola Romana
Other topics
Italian architecture - Sculpture of Italy - Timeline of Italian artists to 1800 - Raphael Rooms


Italian Contemporary art refers to painting and sculpture in Italy from the early 20th century onwards.

The founder and most influential personality of Futurism was the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto in 1909.

The Futurists expressed a loathing of everything old, especially political and artistic tradition. They admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the airplane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature, and they were passionate nationalists. The Futurists practised in every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture and even gastronomy.

The leading painters of the movement were Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini. They advocated a "universal dynamism," which was to be directly represented in painting. At first they used the techniques of Divisionism, breaking light and color down into a field of stippled dots and stripes, later adopting the methods of Cubism. In 1912, Boccioni turned to sculpture to translate into three dimensions his Futurist ideas.


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