Futurism (Italian: Futurismo) was an artistic and social
movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It
emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary
concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and
violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the
industrial city. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though
there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere.
The Futurists practiced in every medium of art, including
painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial
design, interior design, urban design, theatre, film, fashion,
textiles, literature, music, architecture and even gastronomy.
Key figures of the movement include the Italians Filippo Tommaso
Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Giacomo
Balla, Antonio Sant'Elia, Bruno Munari and Luigi Russolo, and
the Russians Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Igor
Severyanin, David Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh and Vladimir
Mayakovsky, as well as the Portuguese Alma