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La Peinture futuriste en Belgique / La Pittura futurista nel Belgio (Futurist painting in Belgium) by the Belgian critic Ray Nyst first appeared in this bilingual version in the magazine La Belgique artistique et littéraire (Artistic and literary Belgium). Nyst expresses a positive assessment of Futurist style, albeit with some reservations. The text is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University Library of Padua. Futurism was a short-lived artistic movement, founded in 1909 by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876‒1944). The goal of the Futurists was ...