a movement in the arts, originated by Italian painters shortly before WWI: they opposed traditionalism and sought to depict dynamic movement by eliminating conventional form and by stressing the speed, flux, and violence of the machine age
See futurism in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(fyo͞oˈchə-rĭzˌəm)
noun
A belief that the meaning of life and one's personal fulfillment lie in the future and not in the present or past.
An artistic movement originating in Italy around 1910 whose aim was to express the energetic, dynamic, and violent quality of contemporary life, especially as embodied in the motion and force of modern machinery.