The Futurist Manifesto

After reading Marinetti's work, I found that this painting done by Vinn Wong is a great abstract representation of what Marinetti depicts. He discusses completely forgetting and disregarding the past, which in the painting, could be represented by the original canvas. At one point he states, "we hurl our defiance at the stars!" Which, to me could be represented by the chaotic paint splatters that seem to be reaching or "hurling" themselves upwards. In the first two lines of the Manifestos of Futurism they state: "1. We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness. 2. Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry." These can be illustrated by the conflict and contrast between the thrown on colors at the bottom of the painting; each color may represent and different trait, danger, energy, fearlessness, courage, revolt, etc. While I don't at all agree with the thought that we should forget the past and focus solely on the future, I did find it interesting to compare his thoughts with an abstract piece of art work and force myself to try to visualize what Marinetti is saying.