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Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings, he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with expressing movement in his works, but unlike other leading futurists he was not interested in machines or violence with his works tending towards the witty and whimsical.
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Born 18 July 1871 · Died 1 March 1958 · Q368254
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1987· 1 entry
Some of his artworks were exhibited at documenta 8, an exhibition of modern art and contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany
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1958· 1 entry
Died 1958-03-01.
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1915· 1 entry
The well-known work titled Boccioni's Fist, based on 'lines of force' (Italian: Linee di forza del pugno di Boccioni)
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1914· 1 entry
Began to design Futurist furniture, as well as so-called Futurist "antineutral" clothing
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1899· 1 entry
His work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale, and in the ensuing years, his art was shown at major exhibitions in Rome and Venice, as well as in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf, at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, and at gal
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1895· 1 entry
Where he met and later married Elisa Marcucci
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1878· 1 entry
After which Balla went to work in a lithography shop to help support his mother
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1871· 1 entry
Born 1871-07-18.
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