I was a big fan of the Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto. I was planning on being an Art Education major originally so this part really caught my attention (although the Contempt for Women was also very intriguing). I liked when he said that painting figures and portraits weren't applicable anymore because the body and the person is far more complex than their "pink skin color". I LOVED his line on page 65 when he said "All is conventional in art, and what was the truth for the painters of yesterday is only a falsehood for us today". I think that while it goes against the idea that if you don't know history you're doomed to repeat it, it made me think that if you never know the "rules" and former directions in art then you aren't pigeon-held to what society or critics think of art.
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