Umberto's parents, Raffaele and Cecilia Forlani Boccioni, originate Morciano di Romagna , Then in the province of Forlì-Cesena [1] . But his father, who works as a janitor prefecture, is forced to travel along the country according to service needs. Umberto was born on October 19 1882 in Reggio Calabria , but soon the family moved to Forlì, where he spent his childhood Umberto. In the summer of 1885
family, left Forlì, is already Genoa, five years later at Padua . In 1897 reaches the order of a new transfer to Catania . This Once the family is separated: Umberto and his father are in Sicily, and her mother with her older sister Amelia, born in Rome, remain in Padua. A Catania Umberto attended the technical school until graduation. He collaborates with some local newspapers and wrote his first novel: Penis soul, which is dated July 6 1900.
In 1901 he moved to Umberto Rome, where his father was transferred again. Often frequents the home of Aunt Dove. In a short time falls in love with one of his daughters, Sandrina. Umberto has about twenty years and attended the study of a poster, where he learned the rudiments of painting. In this period Gino Severini know, with whom he attended in Port Pinciana , the study of the painter Giacomo Balla pointillist . In early 1903 Umberto Severini and attend the Free School of Nude, where they meet Mario Sironi, also a student of Dance, with whom he forms an enduring friendship. In that year he painted his first work Umberto Roman countryside or Noon.
With the help of both parents can not travel abroad, the first destination is Paris (April-August 1906 ), followed by the Russia from which he returns in November same year. In April 1907 Umberto enrolled in the School of Nude 's Institute of Fine Arts in Venice . Begins another journey to Russia but stops in Monaco, where he visits the museum. Come back draws, paints actively, while remaining unsatisfied because he feels the limits of Italian culture that still considers it essentially "culture of the province." Meanwhile, faced the first experience in the engraving.
autumn of 1907 went for the first time in Milan, where for several months living in his mother and sister. He saw immediately that the city is growing more than others and that suits their aspirations dynamics. Become a friend of Romulus Roman , attended Previati , which reflects some influence in his painting that seems to address the symbolism. Becomes a member of the Permanent .
After arriving in Milan and the meeting with the pointillist and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , he writes, with Carlo Carra, Luigi Russolo , Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini The Manifesto of Futurist Painters ( 1910), which followed the Technical Manifesto of Futurist (1910 ): The aim of the modern artist should be, according to the writers, free models and figurative traditions of the past and look resolutely to the contemporary world, dynamic, vibrant and constantly evolving.
subjective quality of representation is therefore proposed that the city, the cars, the chaotic daily life. In his works, Boccioni was able to masterfully express the movement of forms and the reality of the matter. Although influenced by Cubism , which blamed the excessive static, Boccioni avoided straight lines in his paintings and uses complementary colors. In works such as Dynamism of a Cyclist ( 1913), or Dynamism of a football player ( 1911), the representation of the same subject in successive stages over time effectively suggests the idea of \u200b\u200bmoving in space. Similar
intent governs the rest also Boccioni's sculpture, for which the artist often neglected noble materials as marble and bronze, preferring wood the iron and glass . What interested him was to clarify the interaction of a moving object with the surrounding space. Very few have survived its sculptures.
Among the most significant paintings by Boccioni remember Rissa tunnel ( 1910), No Moods 1. The farewells ( 1911) - which are expressed through the motions of flashes of light , spirals and wavy lines diagonally placed - Forces of a road ( 1911), where the city, almost living organism, has significant weight in relation to human presence. In 1915
Italy entered the war. Boccioni, interventionist, he volunteered with a group of artists. During his war effort should think again about the theory enunciated by the futurist Marinetti , that the war is "the world's only hygiene". Coined his famous equation "+ war = boring insects." On August 16
1916, died in an entirely accidental, falling from his horse , imbizzarritasi the sight of a truck . The accident occurs during a military exercise in Chievo, Verona village, where today is his memorial, in a narrow street surrounded by countryside
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