The Futurism Movement

Futurism was an Italian art movement of the early twentieth century that aimed to capture the art and energy of the modern world; the movement wasn't immediately identified with a distinctive style.

Futurists were fascinated by visual technology such as animation and cinema and how it allowed the movement of an object to be shown through a sequence of frames. This technology was an important influence on their approach to showing movement in painting, encouraging an abstract art with rhythmic, pulsating qualities. 




http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/futurism
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-futurism.htm