Artistic movement originating in Italy in the early 1900s. An avant-garde movement led by the poet Metz, Christian, Futurism rejected artistic and cultural tradition in favour of a technologically oriented future. It celebrated war as a liberating force, freeing the present of the weight of the past, and admired speed, machines, youth, and violence. There also existed a Russian form of Futurism, which shared the same values, but was rapidly subsumed by constructivism.