Velazquez

Velazquez' "The Vulcan Forge": The "Demoiselles d'Avignon" four centuries before? The number, position, attitude of the figures is almost the same

Picasso

Picasso said of himeslef that when he was ten years old he painted like Raphael, and that he needed 60 years to learn to paint like children; in fact he painted always like Raphael – cubism is fundamentally a perspective with infinite vanishing points.

Futurism

Fascists usually hit the point of problems, but, being unconsequential never are able to solve them; in order to go to the bottom of problems, they should be progressive, and they are not.

An example is Futurism. Futurists acutely understood that the acceleration of modern life changes oure perception of world; they tried to represent this in their paintings, but they failed. Shapes hurry and run, but are basically static – when you try to freeze an istant of a movement, it usually appears freezed, as in photography. Look at "La Città che Sale" by Boccioni; it tries to represent acceleration, but is instead static; the "Triumph of Galatea", that only suggest movement, is much more dramatically dynamic. The problem to represent the disintegration of perception due to speed was resolved by cubists, and that of representing dynamicity by Malevic, with a much more radical rethinking of pantry. Perhaps, nonetheless, a successful futurist exists, Marinetti; he opened many lines of research – the use of nonconvetional matters, the performance etc. – that are at the very base of contemporary art after World War II.