How Many Legs Has A Dog?

While the Cubist artists strove to depict simultaneous views of space, the Futurists wanted to express a holistic now in which past, present and future are united. Futurism was an art movement in the first quarter of the 20th century. It was a radical trend that aimed at discarding the past, burning the libraries and flooding the museums. The leader of the movement, the poet F. T. Marinetti, who called himself 'the caffeine of Europe' and was a friend of Mussolini, glorified, speed, noise, technology and war In 1909 Marinetti published a manifesto in the French newspaper Figaro, which marked the beginning of Futurism. In an effort to squeeze time in their art, the Futurists stole the photographic discoveries of Etienne Jules Murey and Eward Muybridge. The Italian painter Giacomo Balla, for example, in 1912 painted 'Dynmism of a Dog on a Leash', which was based on chromatographic studies of animals in motion. The resulting image infused kinetic motion and energy by overlapping successive frames of time. The moving dog in the painting appears to have twenty or more legs in the somewhat blurred pictorial representation.