While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table. — Umberto Boccioni, Pittura e scultura futuriste (dinamismo plastico)
For Futurism the most important term is dynamism; A rushing motor car is more beautiful than the Nike of Samothrace they believed and by dynamism they wanted to describe object’s motion. Here are a three of Umberto’s paintings that illustrate that, the first two from 1913, and the last from 1914 : Dynamism of a Cyclist, and Dynamism of man’s and woman’s head :)