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Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni 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 form 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New…
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culture · Italian painter and sculptor (1882–1916) · painter · sculptor · draftsperson · photographer · art critic · graphic artist · printmaker · artist · also Umberto Boccioni, Boccioni
Born 19 October 1882 · Died 17 August 1916 · Q152797
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The gesture which we would reproduce on canvas shall no longer be a fixed moment in universal dynamism. It shall simply be the dynamic sensation itself. Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing.. .We would at any price re-enter into life.
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Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the bus and are blended with it.
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Il Sussidiario: Umberto Boccioni chi è, Seconda Prova Maturità 2025/ Biografia e opere del pittore a sculture futurista
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Wired: Umberto Boccioni, perché il futurista figura nella seconda prova dello scientifico alla Maturità 2025
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2022· 2 entries
il Giornale: Umberto Boccioni, il ribelle che sintetizzò arte, azione e vita
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Exibart: Umberto Boccioni ambasciatore dell’arte italiana in Oriente
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2021· 1 entry
Exibart: Umberto Boccioni, Il giovane Boccioni – Galleria Bottegantica
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2020· 1 entry
ELLE: L’amore segreto e impetuoso tra Vittoria Colonna e Umberto Boccioni (custodito 90 anni in un baule)
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2019· 1 entry
The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art held an exhibition reconstructing several of the destroyed sculptures
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2016· 3 entries
Ansa: Umberto Boccioni, il genio e la memoria
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Fanpage.it: Umberto Boccioni a 100 anni dalla morte: l’eterno fluire dinamico dell’arte
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Vogue: Umberto Boccioni (1882 - 1916). Genio e Memoria a Milano
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1998· 1 entry
It was selected as the image to be engraved on the back of the Italian 20-cent euro coin
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1988· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City organized a major retrospective of 100 pieces
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1916· 9 entries
Died 1916-08-17.
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“It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing.”
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(and after a memorial exhibition was held in Milan), his family entrusted them temporarily to a fellow sculptor, Piero da Verona; da Verona then requested that his assistant place them in the local rubbish-dump
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“The gesture which we would reproduce on canvas shall no longer be a fixed moment in universal dynamism. It shall simply be the dynamic sensation itself. Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing.. .We would at any price re-enter into life.”
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“Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the bus and are blended with it.”
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“The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.”
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“Who can still believe in the opacity of bodies since our sharpened and modified sensitivity has already penetrated the obscure manifestations of the medium? Why should we forget in our creations the double power of our sight, capable of giving results analogous to those of X-rays?”
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“A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations.. .To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.”
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“How is it possible still to see the human face pink, now that our life, redoubled by noctambulism, has multiplied our perceptions as colourists? The human face is yellow, red, green, blue, violet.”
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1915· 1 entry
And the Portrait of Ferruccio Busoni in 1916, he completed a full return to figurative painting
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1914· 3 entries
“While the impressionists paint a picture to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the picture to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus paint the picture.”
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Published Pittura e scultura futuriste (dinamismo plastico) explaining the aesthetics of the group:
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Boccioni published his book, Pittura, scultura futuriste (Futurist Painting and Sculpture), which caused a rift between himself and some of his Futurist comrades
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1912· 5 entries
Including those of Georges Braque, Alexander Archipenko, Constantin Brâncuși, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, August Agero and, probably, Medardo Rosso
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Exhibited some paintings together with other Italian futurists at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, and the following year returned to show his sculptures at the Galerie La Boétie: all related to the elaboration of what Boc
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And continuing with I selciatori (The Street Pavers) and Il bevitore (The Drinker) both in 1914
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With Elasticità or Elasticity, depicting the pure energy of a horse, captured with intense chromaticism, he completed a series of Dynamist paintings: Dinamismo di un corpo umano (Human Body), ciclista (Cyclist), Foot-bal
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(Sackville Gallery) and 1914 (Doré Gallery): the two exhibitions made a deep impression on a number of young English artists, in particular C
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1908· 1 entry
Met the Divisionist painter Gaetano Previati
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1907· 1 entry
Briefly took drawing classes at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice
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1906· 1 entry
Briefly moved to Paris, where he studied Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles, before visiting Russia for three months, getting a first-hand view of the civil unrest and governmental crackdowns
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1901· 1 entry
And mutual interest in Nietzsche, rebellion, life experiences and socialism
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1897· 1 entry
Umberto and his father moved to Catania, Sicily, where he would finish school
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-10-19.
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