With all the political controversy
and women’s protests, ect., this manifesto is oddly relevant and relatable to
the times we are living in right now. I don’t particularly agree with a lot of
what he has stated here, but I can see a reflection of our society today through
his words.
There is a lot going on and it’s
hard for me to fully wrap my head around everything, but I think there are a
few major points Marinetti is trying to make. Although I’m not exactly sure
what those points are, I believe they have to do with art, war and age.
Nothing about his words was casual. To
me, I felt like the whole manifesto was about promoting violence, and it was
really heavy for me. Dominant ideologies of fascism run clear throughout this
piece. It seemed as though he was strongly against the arts, and wrote this
glorifying war and aggression and hierarchy.
Marinetti’s use of metaphor when
describing museums made me curious yet confused. I didn’t know what he was
comparing the museums to. My impression was that he was speaking about the
future of Italy and comparing the future of the country to the young people
that are going to actively transform the future. And after your thirty and forty,
one adds no value to society and where society is headed, as he says:
“Museums: public dormitories where
one lies forever beside hated or unknown beings. Museums: absurd abattoirs of
painters and sculptors ferociously slaughtering each other with color-blows and
line-
blows, the length of the fought-over
walls!”
“But I don’t admit that our sorrows,
our fragile courage, our morbid restlessness should be given a daily conducted
tour
through the museums. Why poison
ourselves? Why rot?”
The statement below is also very
interesting to me because I think there is actually some truth to it. As
someone who paints and has studied art and is influenced by the arts, I believe
that most of the art we see today stems from experiences and history, most of
which is made up of violence and cruelty and injustice. So amongst everything,
I do agree with that statement.
“Art, in fact, can be nothing but
violence, cruelty, and injustice.”
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