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Definition of futurist in English: futuristnoun ˈfjuːtʃərɪstˈfjutʃərəst 1An adherent of Futurism. Example sentencesExamples - The Russian Futurists rejected Symbolism, which had been such a powerful force in the country's art, demanding a new and experimental attitude, and they welcomed the Revolution.
- The Italian Futurists aimed to free art from all its historical restraints and celebrate the new beauty of the modern age.
- Typically the Futurists employed images of romanticism, the sacred and the military, to elevate drivers killed in accidents to the status of sacrifices on the altar of technology.
- The theme was clearly shared by many artists, among them the Futurists, Picabia (Duchamp's boon companion for a time) and the Delaunays.
- By contrast, the intuitive consciousness Boccioni and the Futurists associated with artistic creativity and the violence of the male revolutionary represented the elan vital as a fully operative agent of creative evolution.
- According to him, the Communists revolutionised social content while the Futurists merely revolutionised artistic form.
- Here are jumbled together manifestos from the Bauhaus, Surrealism, Dada, the Suprematists and the Futurists.
- He went on to say that he had not meant to imply that the named artists were Futurists, or had even endorsed the movement, but that he had named them as ‘advanced forces of English Art’.
- Accordingly, she gives what is now the near obligatory nod to Marcel Duchamp while omitting any discussion of those Dadaists or Futurists who had abandoned the studio and its craft as being central to artistic and cultural production.
- Aesthetically, it recalls the jagged, fragmented abstract art of the Italian Futurists, Russia's Suprematists and Constructivists, and Vorticist Wyndham Lewis.
- Right now, the market is hungry for Italian art from the Fifties and Sixties, as well as the Futurists and such evergreens as Mario Sironi and Morandi.
- Beginning with performance art and Futurists, she discussed disruptive forums that appeal to a broad public, both anarchic and socially engaged, breaking down categories, bridging disciplines, open-ended and malleable acts.
- Even the modernist aesthetic revolt of the Futurists against bourgeois traditionalism and bad taste served the interventionist cause by inventing a new style and symbolic expression for the radical nationalism of the streets.
- The Futurists, the Surrealists, the abstract expressionists, all sought their passionate rhapsodies, of mechanization, or libido, or spontaneity.
- The Futurists saw art as a weapon in a bitter struggle with the old.
- References to Marcel Duchamp, Frederick Nietzche and the Italian Futurists are all woven into Hitlers' artistic ethos, even though he claims to be an anti-modernist.
- This is something that was clearly present with the Dadaists, as with the Futurists, both Italian and Russian, around the time of the first world war, and it began to take new and very dynamic forms after the second war.
- He studied at the Brussels Academy from 1916, associating with the Belgian avant-garde - poets and painters - and admiring the Futurists and the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico.
- And an almost identical declaration has been made in turn by the Symbolists, by Italian and Russian Futurists, by German Expressionists, and so on and on.
- But there is no reason to assume a logical link between the two, as Brecht, the Futurists and the Surrealists recognised.
2A person who studies the future and makes predictions about it based on current trends. the agency hired a futurist to pinpoint trends Example sentencesExamples - You know, futurists tell us if we're alive in the year 2010, that our life expectancy's 125, OK?
- Hundreds of futurists, supposedly right up there on the cutting edge of everything, laughed at a word that is so ancient it made its way to that hotbed of street slang, the House of Commons, three years ago.
- Also noting the vulnerability of centralized systems, Dyson's son George, a maverick futurist, puts forward a radical revamping of the airline system.
- While many futurists predicted that we'd be enjoying the paperless office around this time, Americans are still at the epicenter of a paper blizzard.
- And then the people responsible for running the existing business become threatened because everything the futurist is doing involves obsoleting what they do.
- And to get a slant on how to bring the big picture into focus, we turned to business futurists who have a knack for forecasting economic and technological trends.
- I'm a lousy futurist, so I'm loathe to make any big predictions.
- A futurist is someone who uses various tools and strategies to analyze trends about the future.
- What do tourists, nourishment, and futurists have in common?
- Apart from a few speakers visiting college, the only futurists I've met have been on the same course as me, so I was interested to see what the rest of the field looked like.
- He commissioned two master futurists to produce an analysis.
- Many futurists predict that people will soon be recording almost every waking moment in their lives.
- Trendspotters, cool-hunters and professional futurists make a living identifying the hot new ideas that will eventually touch the rest of us.
- Cass has made a career as an economic futurist, studying what changes in the economy, and, more importantly, what doesn't change.
- Now, I know you'd be the first to distance yourself from the practice of astrology, but it seems that like astrology columns, no two futurists would necessarily agree on their predictions for the future.
- There's any number of bad predictions that futurists, or would-be futurists have made over the decades.
- He's not one of your crazy futurists - he won't dole out contraceptive medicine to anyone unmarried, say, and despite being an ob-gyn, he's a staunch pro-lifer.
- This technological revolution is so pervasive in our culture that many self-proclaimed experts and futurists are predicting a paperless society - and sooner rather than later.
- For a while there, I visited a bunch of our nation's futurists, hoping to learn something, and I came away wanting nothing more than to gather my rosebuds and live for the moment and carpe diem and just drink heavily.
- This is bread-and-butter stuff, a million miles from futurists whispering sweet nothings to a computer, but it's fast, reliable and a sight more relevant to the way we work today.
3Theology
A person who believes that eschatological prophecies are still to be fulfilled.
adjective ˈfjuːtʃərɪstˈfjutʃərəst 1Relating to Futurism or the Futurists. Example sentencesExamples - However, seeing as a lot of it was influenced by Futurist art it tended to be bought up by the Fascists.
- Unlike the work of these Constructivists, however, Gummer's forms evoke motion, like the lines of three in Futurist paintings.
- Initially influenced by Cubist and Futurist conceptions of space and dynamics, he joined the avant-garde, exhibiting with the Berlin Sezession in 1914.
- Many popular histories of sound art trace it back to early Italian Futurist performances by Filippo Marinetti and Luigi Russolo or the American John Cage.
- This effect can also be read as swooshing dynamism, resembling the way movement is depicted in Futurist paintings or recalling the ghost that sometimes follows a slow-moving computer-screen arrow.
- Framing the stairway are two Futurist paintings, a Cubist-influenced scene of lancers on horseback by Severini and, appropriately for Lingotto, an abstract paean to pure velocity by Balla.
- The political corollary to rationalism was democracy in politics and academicism in art; both were undermined by the ‘antirationalism’ of the Futurist program.
- Of course, Makine's own literary language differs fundamentally from the Russian Futurist experimentation that inspired the Formalists; it is not radically innovative, but startlingly archaic.
- The most important Futurist artists were Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini and Giacomo Boccioni, together with American immigrant, Joseph Stella.
- The role of the fourth dimension in the creation of this revolutionary consciousness thus constitutes an example of how politics became aestheticized under the Futurist banner.
- Faced with technophobia, hyped techno-optimism, and Futurist discourses of progress that make us blind to the clumsy reality of computers, how do we think about and live with technology?
- The extravagant rhetoric of the original Futurist manifesto in 1909 set the tone of a movement in which the method, like the message, was to be uncompromising.
- Today, almost a century later, the Futurist manifestos read like the rantings of poetic speed freaks.
- Two series of paintings, Swifts in Flight and the Speeding Automobile, suggest the Futurist preoccupation with velocity, but here, movement is evoked through patterns of lines rather than broken contours.
- Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurist performance activities seem to have shared a similar spirit of exploration, of breaking down boundaries, of looking to process instead of product.
- One of the best collections of Futurist art outside Italy is the Eric and Salome Estorick Foundation, London, which opened to the public in 1998.
- The most effective of his pictures of destruction is the pastel and chalk Boesinghe Farm, which utilises the shapes of Futurist patterns in its dark portrayal of fallen timbers and shattered brick.
- Even today Futurist writings are among the most extensive studies on the effects and values of speed in modern society.
- We will see how this translates into Futurist style in a moment, but first we must consider the role of human creativity in this theoretical matrix.
- Marinetti found new Futurist friends in the years between the wars and he was an early member of the Fascist Party which grew swiftly in Italy after 1919.
2Relating to a vision of the future. the grim urban setting of the novel would have been a futurist nightmare Example sentencesExamples - This was the second time I've earnestly sat down to Yu Lik Wai's odder-than-odd futurist fantasy since it premiered at Cannes last year.
- It conveys an inhuman and relentless force that could well symbolize a very unattractive futurist society as well as the horror of war.
- More recently, weather and climate have become sources of equally fantastic futurist doomsday scenarios as well.
- A Whitmanesque catalogue filled with futurist horrors, this powerful prose poem visualizes the aboveground as a world where technology and rationality have become tools of violence and destruction on a world scale.
- This is the new, caring, cutting-edge Germany, a smart, angular bit of kit, all flat metal and futurist slots and holes.
- It is disquieting to join the ranks of futurist thinkers, for many so-called experts have made forecasts that have turned out to be embarrassingly wrong.
- But all Laurens's play, which has already finished its brief run, proves is that classical myth and futurist nightmare make queasily strange bedfellows.
- In the futurist vision, pulses from e-bombs cause anything that contains computer chips to wheeze to a halt, winning without widespread devastation and allowing low-cost reconstruction - just replace the chips!
- I have found that the best way to put together completely surreal, futurist combinations of clothes is to go shopping at a Salvation Army or other thrift store in your local gay district, where they will have the best clothes, natch.
- Apparently, even futurist visionaries like turkey.
- Occasionally couching their philosophies in cutting-edge futurist thought, they nevertheless managed to formulate groundbreaking theories on the nature of existence itself.
- Possibly the most futurist gadget I have seen in months is the Ceiva Internet-Enabled Photo Frame.
- Once, such ideas were the stuff of futurist ponderings published in popular science and mechanics magazines.
- Ancient tradition doesn't sit next to futurist corporation.
- And it's this futurist outlook which made the day and age of Walter Paepcke, and his contemporaries, so wonderful.
- It's what you get for reading books of futurist hyperbole before you go to sleep.
- Our futurist zeitgeist may originate in capitalist economics, but its logic also creates a context for cultural signification.
- These kinds of applications - promised for more than a decade - have almost become clichés of futurist hype.
Definition of futurist in US English: futuristnounˈfjutʃərəstˈfyo͞oCHərəst 1An adherent of Futurism. Example sentencesExamples - He studied at the Brussels Academy from 1916, associating with the Belgian avant-garde - poets and painters - and admiring the Futurists and the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico.
- According to him, the Communists revolutionised social content while the Futurists merely revolutionised artistic form.
- Here are jumbled together manifestos from the Bauhaus, Surrealism, Dada, the Suprematists and the Futurists.
- Accordingly, she gives what is now the near obligatory nod to Marcel Duchamp while omitting any discussion of those Dadaists or Futurists who had abandoned the studio and its craft as being central to artistic and cultural production.
- Beginning with performance art and Futurists, she discussed disruptive forums that appeal to a broad public, both anarchic and socially engaged, breaking down categories, bridging disciplines, open-ended and malleable acts.
- The Italian Futurists aimed to free art from all its historical restraints and celebrate the new beauty of the modern age.
- References to Marcel Duchamp, Frederick Nietzche and the Italian Futurists are all woven into Hitlers' artistic ethos, even though he claims to be an anti-modernist.
- This is something that was clearly present with the Dadaists, as with the Futurists, both Italian and Russian, around the time of the first world war, and it began to take new and very dynamic forms after the second war.
- Typically the Futurists employed images of romanticism, the sacred and the military, to elevate drivers killed in accidents to the status of sacrifices on the altar of technology.
- The theme was clearly shared by many artists, among them the Futurists, Picabia (Duchamp's boon companion for a time) and the Delaunays.
- The Futurists saw art as a weapon in a bitter struggle with the old.
- Even the modernist aesthetic revolt of the Futurists against bourgeois traditionalism and bad taste served the interventionist cause by inventing a new style and symbolic expression for the radical nationalism of the streets.
- By contrast, the intuitive consciousness Boccioni and the Futurists associated with artistic creativity and the violence of the male revolutionary represented the elan vital as a fully operative agent of creative evolution.
- But there is no reason to assume a logical link between the two, as Brecht, the Futurists and the Surrealists recognised.
- The Russian Futurists rejected Symbolism, which had been such a powerful force in the country's art, demanding a new and experimental attitude, and they welcomed the Revolution.
- And an almost identical declaration has been made in turn by the Symbolists, by Italian and Russian Futurists, by German Expressionists, and so on and on.
- The Futurists, the Surrealists, the abstract expressionists, all sought their passionate rhapsodies, of mechanization, or libido, or spontaneity.
- He went on to say that he had not meant to imply that the named artists were Futurists, or had even endorsed the movement, but that he had named them as ‘advanced forces of English Art’.
- Right now, the market is hungry for Italian art from the Fifties and Sixties, as well as the Futurists and such evergreens as Mario Sironi and Morandi.
- Aesthetically, it recalls the jagged, fragmented abstract art of the Italian Futurists, Russia's Suprematists and Constructivists, and Vorticist Wyndham Lewis.
2A person who studies the future and makes predictions about it based on current trends. Example sentencesExamples - Apart from a few speakers visiting college, the only futurists I've met have been on the same course as me, so I was interested to see what the rest of the field looked like.
- A futurist is someone who uses various tools and strategies to analyze trends about the future.
- Also noting the vulnerability of centralized systems, Dyson's son George, a maverick futurist, puts forward a radical revamping of the airline system.
- Hundreds of futurists, supposedly right up there on the cutting edge of everything, laughed at a word that is so ancient it made its way to that hotbed of street slang, the House of Commons, three years ago.
- Now, I know you'd be the first to distance yourself from the practice of astrology, but it seems that like astrology columns, no two futurists would necessarily agree on their predictions for the future.
- You know, futurists tell us if we're alive in the year 2010, that our life expectancy's 125, OK?
- Cass has made a career as an economic futurist, studying what changes in the economy, and, more importantly, what doesn't change.
- And to get a slant on how to bring the big picture into focus, we turned to business futurists who have a knack for forecasting economic and technological trends.
- For a while there, I visited a bunch of our nation's futurists, hoping to learn something, and I came away wanting nothing more than to gather my rosebuds and live for the moment and carpe diem and just drink heavily.
- While many futurists predicted that we'd be enjoying the paperless office around this time, Americans are still at the epicenter of a paper blizzard.
- I'm a lousy futurist, so I'm loathe to make any big predictions.
- There's any number of bad predictions that futurists, or would-be futurists have made over the decades.
- Many futurists predict that people will soon be recording almost every waking moment in their lives.
- He commissioned two master futurists to produce an analysis.
- He's not one of your crazy futurists - he won't dole out contraceptive medicine to anyone unmarried, say, and despite being an ob-gyn, he's a staunch pro-lifer.
- And then the people responsible for running the existing business become threatened because everything the futurist is doing involves obsoleting what they do.
- This is bread-and-butter stuff, a million miles from futurists whispering sweet nothings to a computer, but it's fast, reliable and a sight more relevant to the way we work today.
- This technological revolution is so pervasive in our culture that many self-proclaimed experts and futurists are predicting a paperless society - and sooner rather than later.
- What do tourists, nourishment, and futurists have in common?
- Trendspotters, cool-hunters and professional futurists make a living identifying the hot new ideas that will eventually touch the rest of us.
3Theology
A person who believes that eschatological prophecies are still to be fulfilled.
adjectiveˈfjutʃərəstˈfyo͞oCHərəst 1Relating to Futurism or the Futurists. Example sentencesExamples - Marinetti found new Futurist friends in the years between the wars and he was an early member of the Fascist Party which grew swiftly in Italy after 1919.
- One of the best collections of Futurist art outside Italy is the Eric and Salome Estorick Foundation, London, which opened to the public in 1998.
- The extravagant rhetoric of the original Futurist manifesto in 1909 set the tone of a movement in which the method, like the message, was to be uncompromising.
- Today, almost a century later, the Futurist manifestos read like the rantings of poetic speed freaks.
- Two series of paintings, Swifts in Flight and the Speeding Automobile, suggest the Futurist preoccupation with velocity, but here, movement is evoked through patterns of lines rather than broken contours.
- Many popular histories of sound art trace it back to early Italian Futurist performances by Filippo Marinetti and Luigi Russolo or the American John Cage.
- Of course, Makine's own literary language differs fundamentally from the Russian Futurist experimentation that inspired the Formalists; it is not radically innovative, but startlingly archaic.
- Unlike the work of these Constructivists, however, Gummer's forms evoke motion, like the lines of three in Futurist paintings.
- However, seeing as a lot of it was influenced by Futurist art it tended to be bought up by the Fascists.
- This effect can also be read as swooshing dynamism, resembling the way movement is depicted in Futurist paintings or recalling the ghost that sometimes follows a slow-moving computer-screen arrow.
- Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurist performance activities seem to have shared a similar spirit of exploration, of breaking down boundaries, of looking to process instead of product.
- Even today Futurist writings are among the most extensive studies on the effects and values of speed in modern society.
- We will see how this translates into Futurist style in a moment, but first we must consider the role of human creativity in this theoretical matrix.
- The role of the fourth dimension in the creation of this revolutionary consciousness thus constitutes an example of how politics became aestheticized under the Futurist banner.
- The political corollary to rationalism was democracy in politics and academicism in art; both were undermined by the ‘antirationalism’ of the Futurist program.
- Faced with technophobia, hyped techno-optimism, and Futurist discourses of progress that make us blind to the clumsy reality of computers, how do we think about and live with technology?
- The most important Futurist artists were Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini and Giacomo Boccioni, together with American immigrant, Joseph Stella.
- Initially influenced by Cubist and Futurist conceptions of space and dynamics, he joined the avant-garde, exhibiting with the Berlin Sezession in 1914.
- Framing the stairway are two Futurist paintings, a Cubist-influenced scene of lancers on horseback by Severini and, appropriately for Lingotto, an abstract paean to pure velocity by Balla.
- The most effective of his pictures of destruction is the pastel and chalk Boesinghe Farm, which utilises the shapes of Futurist patterns in its dark portrayal of fallen timbers and shattered brick.
2Relating to a vision of the future, especially one involving the development of technology. the grim urban setting of the novel would have been a futurist nightmare Example sentencesExamples - More recently, weather and climate have become sources of equally fantastic futurist doomsday scenarios as well.
- And it's this futurist outlook which made the day and age of Walter Paepcke, and his contemporaries, so wonderful.
- Apparently, even futurist visionaries like turkey.
- Ancient tradition doesn't sit next to futurist corporation.
- It is disquieting to join the ranks of futurist thinkers, for many so-called experts have made forecasts that have turned out to be embarrassingly wrong.
- It's what you get for reading books of futurist hyperbole before you go to sleep.
- Our futurist zeitgeist may originate in capitalist economics, but its logic also creates a context for cultural signification.
- Possibly the most futurist gadget I have seen in months is the Ceiva Internet-Enabled Photo Frame.
- In the futurist vision, pulses from e-bombs cause anything that contains computer chips to wheeze to a halt, winning without widespread devastation and allowing low-cost reconstruction - just replace the chips!
- This was the second time I've earnestly sat down to Yu Lik Wai's odder-than-odd futurist fantasy since it premiered at Cannes last year.
- Occasionally couching their philosophies in cutting-edge futurist thought, they nevertheless managed to formulate groundbreaking theories on the nature of existence itself.
- These kinds of applications - promised for more than a decade - have almost become clichés of futurist hype.
- Once, such ideas were the stuff of futurist ponderings published in popular science and mechanics magazines.
- But all Laurens's play, which has already finished its brief run, proves is that classical myth and futurist nightmare make queasily strange bedfellows.
- A Whitmanesque catalogue filled with futurist horrors, this powerful prose poem visualizes the aboveground as a world where technology and rationality have become tools of violence and destruction on a world scale.
- It conveys an inhuman and relentless force that could well symbolize a very unattractive futurist society as well as the horror of war.
- This is the new, caring, cutting-edge Germany, a smart, angular bit of kit, all flat metal and futurist slots and holes.
- I have found that the best way to put together completely surreal, futurist combinations of clothes is to go shopping at a Salvation Army or other thrift store in your local gay district, where they will have the best clothes, natch.
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