Boccioni, Umberto: Biography
If, by 1910, Futurism had already written and shouted its dogma in words, its pictures still lacked an appropriately modern language to articulate their new subjects. The City Rises by Umberto Boccioni is a case in point. Against the Milanese urban background of smoking chimneys, scaffolding, a streetcar, and a locomotive, enormous draft horses tug at their harnesses, while street workers attempt to direct the animals' explosive strength. Yet the pictorial means of realizing this veneration of titanic energies and industrial activity are, in 1910, as anachronistic as the prominent role given to horse power. Basically, Boccioni still works here within a modified Impressionist technique whose atomizing effect on mass permits the forceful, churning symbols of horse and manpower to slip out of their skins in an Impressionist blur of moving light.
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Boccioni, Umberto: 'Encyclopedia.com'
Boccioni, Umberto Pronounced As: oomberto bot-chôn , 1882-1916, Italian futurist painter and sculptor. He played a primary role in the drafting of the manifesto of futurism in 1910 and was the major figure in the movement until 1914.
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Boccioni, Umberto: A Master
Umberto Boccioni Umberto (1862-1916) was a pioneer of Futurist painting in Italy and had considerable influence over many artists.
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Boccioni, Umberto: WWI Artists
There were very few charges of this kind during the Great War, with the exception of some cavalry confrontations during the first few months, mainly between Austro-Hungarian and Russian troops. Nevertheless Boccioni (1882-1916) depicts this one, which is allegorical rather than real. The allusion to St George and to Uccello's Battles melts into in a Futurist treatment which heightens the dynamism of the general movement.
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Boccioni, Umberto: (1882-1916) Reggio Calabria, Italia
Pintor, escultor y teórico italiano, fue uno de los líderes del movimiento futurista. En 1910, escribió el Manifiesto de los pintores futuristas en el que hacía la revolucionaria propuesta de que los artistas se liberaran del pasado y abrazaran el mundo moderno con su movimiento, su velocidad y su dinamismo.
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