Heron

More evidence of emboldened wildlife.  This heron was not at all bothered by my proximity.

At the moment I took that, I was listening for the first time to Faith No More's 1992 album Angel Dust on which my favourite track was Caffeine. Spot the coincidence.

After looking at Cubism yesterday, another "ism" today - Futurism. This movement emerged in Italy in 1909, with a founding manifesto by Filippo Marinetti.  He glorified technology, speed and dynamism. Its call to arms was a slogan - "Art + Action + Life = Futurism." Futurist artists like Boccioni, Severini, Carra and Russolo sought to create dynamic images using techniques such as pointillist brushwork, unnaturalistic colour, and "force-lines" to draw the viewer into the picture.

One of their colleagues was Giacomo Balla.   His Swifts: Paths of Movement + Dynamic Sequences (1913) was based on the stop-motion "chronophotography" of Étienne-Jules Marey. He used that to create a study of the movement of birds in flight in an abstract composition of forms, showing reflected light and strong contrasting colours.

A few years later the original Futurists' movement fizzled-out, with the death of some of its leading members. A second wave of Futurism became closely associated with Fascism.