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
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is a 1913 Futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni. It is seen as an expression of movement and fluidity. The sculpture is depicted on the obverse of the Italian-issu
Umberto Boccioni
…in sculpture in the previous year. By the end of 1913 he had completed what is considered his masterpiece, Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space), in wax. His goal for the work was to depict a "synthetic continuity" of motion, instead of an "analytical discontinuity" that he saw in such artists…
1931 or 1934 bronze cast displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
Original plaster, photo from Estado de São Paulo newspaper, 1913.
Sculpture on 20 euro cent coin
Sculpture in museum