Week 1 - on reading F.T. Marinetti "Futurist Manifesto"

Reading F.T. Marinetti’s article reminded me of George Bernard Shaw’s play “Major Barbara”, both have the tone of defiance and smell of gun powder. Like everything else from that period, it talked about revolution and struggle. Since Marx’s The Communist Manifesto, the revolution swept Europe and Russia. In the art world, impressionism was falling behind, steam engines, winged figures and steel wheels had become the symbol of the future art in the early 20th century.