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Umberto Boccioni

Italian Futurist painter and sculptor who theorized dynamism and deconstructed solid mass.

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Umberto Boccioni

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He died on 17 August 1916.[1] The Italian painter and sculptor Umberto Boccioni was born in Reggio Calabria on 19 October 1882.[1][2] Within the Futurism movement, Boccioni served as its primary theorist.[3]

Life and work

Boccioni's commercial illustration shows his awareness of contemporary European illustrators like Cecil Aldin and Harry Eliott.[4] He decided to become a sculptor after visiting Paris studios in 1912, including those of Georges Braque and Constantin Brâncuși.[3] Much of his experimental sculpture from late 1912 to 1913 was destroyed after his death, placed in a rubbish-dump by a fellow sculptor's assistant.[5] Boccioni's father, who came from the Romagna region, held a minor government post that required him to move frequently across Italy.[2]

Umberto and his older sister Amelia spent their childhood in Forlì, Genoa, and later Padua.[2] To complete his schooling, the fifteen-year-old Umberto relocated with his father to Catania, Sicily, in 1897.[2] Giovanni Mataloni, a poster artist working in the Liberty style, was another of his teachers.[2] In 1912 he showed paintings at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, and the next year he exhibited sculptures at the Galerie La Boétie.[3]

What the cited sources add

Sabine Rewald's 1990 article in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin notes that between 1906 and 1915 Boccioni's mother Cecilia Forlani appeared in at least forty-five of his works.[6][7]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Umberto Boccioni" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; "Boccioni", Collins English Dictionary; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Umberto Boccioni" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Coen, Ester, Boccioni (1988, New York: Museum of Modern Art), p. 209, footnoted by translator in Severini, Gino, The Life of a Painter (1995, Princeton Universi (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Umberto Boccioni" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Christine Poggi, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage, Yale University Press, 1992, pp. 20, 177, (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Umberto Boccioni" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Niccolò D’Agati, 'Fox-Hunt Garbage: Umberto Boccioni and British Illustration', Print Quarterly, XXXVI, no. 1, March 2019, pp. 31–44. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Umberto Boccioni" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Tisdall, Caroline and Bozzolla, Angelo, Futurism, p. 72; Thames and Hudson.; Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art (@Estorick) on Twitter, 18 December 2019; "After Boccioni's premature death his large sculptures were temporarily entr; Quoted by the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art (@Estorick) on Twitter, 20 December 2019; FT Marinetti recalled the destruction of Boccioni's sculptures (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Umberto Boccioni" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rewald, "Twentieth Century Art", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 1990, p. 65–79; Re, "Futurism and Feminism", Annali d'Italianistica, 1989, p. 253–272 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Sabine Rewald, "Twentieth Century Art", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (1990), doi:10.2307/3258959. OpenAlex metadata CC0; paper not read. doi.org

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