The Age of Machinery Interest and appreciation of machinery was clearly in the air in the early decades of the 20th century. Though they translated this idea of progress into a frenetic exultation of the glory of war and the destruction of museums, their visual understanding of motion remained exciting. The Italian Futurists, like the members of Die Br cke in Germany, aimed to free art from all its historical restraints and celebrate the new beauty of the modern age.
Noise becomes something seen, something literally invasive of privacy.
The surging incoherence of the forms is both chaotic and ordered.