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What were the futurists?

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Near to advertising and promoting artistic theory. Today the term futurist most commonly describes authors, consultants and, organizational leaders. Additional answer: The futurists were a group of Italian painters following their common futurist manifesto of 1910. Boccioni, Balla, Severini were the best known.

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