this is boccioni's impression of a football player in motion.xcited by speed and movement, they wanted to capture the impact of modern life on all the senses. the futurists' fascination with dynamism and movement reached a remarkable climax here in boccioni's unique forms of continuity in space. boccioni claimed to have found in this work pure plastic rhythm-- not the construction of the body, but the construction of the action of the body. it is also, of course, an image of faith in the power of modern man to storm the future. but the futurists were not simply experimenting with form. their work was the manifestation of the most political of all the avant-garde groups. they were on the authoritarian right rather than the marxist left. their leader, filippo tommaso marinetti, hated the past. he wanted to drag italy into the 20th century with violence. one of his slogans was "war-- sole hygiene of the world." the themes of war and an impending apocalypse can be found in the work of many artists of this time, but their roots lay in the 19th centur