Filippo Marinetti

Filippo Marinetti was an Italian poet and the founder of the Futurist movement, which emerged in the early 20th century. His manifesto, published in 1909, celebrated modernity, technology, and the dynamic energy of the machine age, while rejecting the past and traditional artistic conventions. Marinetti's work is characterized by its embrace of speed, violence, and a desire to liberate humanity from the constraints of nature, reflecting a complex relationship with both progress and destruction.