Umberto Boccioni
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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 appr
Umberto Boccioni
Self portrait, 1905, oil on canvas
Umberto Boccioni, 1913, Synthèse du dynamisme humain (Synthesis of Human Dynamism), sculpture destroyed
The tomb in Verona
The City Rises
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The City Rises is an oil painting by the Italian painter, Umberto Boccioni. It was his first major Futurist work.
Umberto Boccioni
…lover Ines at center, was cited as expressing great emotion – strength, melancholy and love. Boccioni worked for nearly a year on La città sale or The City Rises, 1910, a huge (2m by 3m) painting, which is considered his turning point into Futurism. "I attempted a great synthesis of labor, light and movement…
The City Rises by Umberto Boccioni 1910
Sketch for The City Rises