Futurismo arte umberto boccioni biography
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Umberto Boccioni: the life and works of the great futurist
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Umberto Boccioni was the greatest experimenter of futurism. We learn about his life, his works, the importance of his art, and museums where to see his work.
“I would like to erase all the values I knew that I know and am losing sight of, to redo, rebuild on a new basis! All the past, wonderfully great, oppresses me I want new! And I lack the elements to conceive where one is at, and what one needs. With what to do this? with color? or with drawing? with painting? with verist tendencies that no longer satisfy me, with symbolist tendencies that I like in few and have never attempted? With an idealism that I do not know how to concretize?” When Umberto Boccioni (Reggio Calabria, 1882 - Verona, 1916) wrote these lines, on March 14, 1907, the artist, among the leading exponents of Futurism, was going through one of several moments of crisis in his short car
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Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni (Italian pronunciation: [umˈbɛrto botˈtʃoːni]; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach to the dynamism of struktur and the deconstruction of solid mass guided artists long after his death. His works are held by many public art museums, and in 1988 the storstads- Museum of Art in New York organized a major retrospective of 100 pieces.
Umberto Boccioni was born on 19 October 1882 in Reggio Calabria. His father was a minor government employee, originally from the Romagna region in the north, and his job included frequent reassignments throughout Italy. The family soon relocated further north, and Umberto and his older sister Amelia grew up largely in Forlì (Emilia-Romagna), Genoa and finally Padua. At the age of 15, in 1897, Umberto and his father moved to Catania
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Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) was the leading artist of Italian Futurism. During his short life, he produced some of the movement’s iconic paintings and sculptures, capturing the color and dynamism of modern life in a style he theorized and defended in manifestos, books, and articles.
Born in Reggio Calabria, Boccioni attended technical college in Catania, Sicily, and began his artistic career as a talented draftsman. He moved to Rome in 1899 to train as an artist, first taking drawing lessons with Giovanni Maria Mataloni, an artist who specialized in publicity posters. Boccioni’s skill in creating compelling compositions in cartoons and posters stayed with him throughout his career. The commercial work also provided a small income to support his training as a fine artist.
In 1902, he entered the studio of the established painter Giacomo Balla and met fellow student Gino Severini. As seen in Boccioni’s Young Man on a Riverbank (1902; ), the two young artists would often leave the