Panfuturism (also known as Kverofuturism) is a

Ukrainian avant-garde Ukrainian avant-garde is the avant-garde movement in Ukrainian art from the end of 1890s to the middle of the 1930s along with associated artists in sculpture, painting, literature, cinema, theater, stage design, graphics, music, and architecture. ...

art movement developed by

Mykhaylo Semenko Mykhail Semenko () or Mykhailo Vasyliovich Semenko (; 31 December 1892 – 23 October 1937) was a Ukrainian poet, and a prominent representative of the Ukrainian Futurism (literature), Futurist movement of the 1920s. He is a leading figure of the ...

, a Ukrainian poet.

Overview

History

Panfuturism originated in

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. Mykhaylo Semenko developed it in 1914.

Principles

Semenko outlined the following principles of Panfuturism in an essay, "What Panfuturism wants": * Panfuturism "wants to be a scientific system which is attained by its being a system universal and synthetic." * The goal of Panfuturism is to "abolish all 'isms' which is attained by neutralizing them...by regarding every single case as a private problem of the polyproblematic organism of art." * Panfuturism is a "

proletarian The proletariat (; ) is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian or a . Marxist philo ...

system of art." * Panfuturism is an "organizational art." * Panfuturism "is the whole art." * Panfuturism "is at once

Futurism Futurism ( ) was an Art movement, artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the ...

Cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture. Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...

Expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

and

Dada Dada () or Dadaism was an anti-establishment art movement that developed in 1915 in the context of the Great War and the earlier anti-art movement. Early centers for dadaism included Zürich and Berlin. Within a few years, the movement had s ...

ism."

References

01 Ukrainian art movements Futurism Ukrainian avant-garde {{art-movement-stub