He naturally moved towards the futurists who were practising modern art in a variety of media including sculpture paintings graphic design ceramics interior design industrial design film. Frustrated with the various techniques of post impressionism which passed for modernism in italy at the time boccioni was constantly searching for a new way to express dynamic form. Chief artists associated with futurism were giacomo balla umberto boccioni gino severini.
Futurist painting used elements of neo impressionism and cubism to create compositions that expressed the idea of the dynamism the energy and movement of modern life. His critical and rebellious nature and overall intellectual ability would contribute substantially to the development of the futurism movement. Boccioni s writings at this time already express the combination of outrage and irony that would become a lifelong characteristic.
It was not until he encountered cubism that he developed a style that matched the ideology of dynamism and violent societal upheaval that lay at the heart of futurism. Although boccioni deserves a great amount of credit for evolving the style now associated with italian futurism he first matured as a neo impressionist painter and was drawn to landscape and portrait subjects. The city rises 1910 11 however is an exemplary futurist painting in its representation of dynamism motion and speed.
Boccioni s first major futurist painting riot in the gallery 1909 remained close to pointillism and showed an affiliation with futurism mainly in its violent subject matter and dynamic composition. Despite his short life his approach to the dynamism of form and the deconstruction of solid mass guided. 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.
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