Umberto Boccioni
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Umberto Boccioni |
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Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Reggio Calabria, Italy |
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| Birth: |
1882 |
| Death: |
1916 |
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Tempera, bronze |
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Futurism |
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Painting
Sculpture
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Biography
Umberto Boccioni was a Futurists painter and a sculptor. His work focused on the portrayal of movement (dynamism), speed, and technology.
Umberto Boccioni studied art through the Scuola Libera del Nudo at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome in 1901. He also studied design with a sign painter in Rome. He became a student of Giacomo Balla, a divisionist painter. In 1906, Boccioni studied Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris. In 1901, Boccioni first visited the Famiglia Artistica, a society for artists in Milan. After moving there in 1907, he met other Futurists artists, including poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
Boccioni became the main theorist of the Futurist movement. He also decided to be a sculptor after he visited various studios in Paris.
In 1914, he published Pittura e scultura futuriste (dinamismo plastico) explaining the aesthetics of the group: “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.” |
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