Umberto Boccioni influences and impacts

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  • Birth

    Boccioni was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

  • Moved to Rome to train as an artist

    This marked the beginning of his successful career in art, inspiring many.

  • Created his first major Futurist artwork

    His work, "The City Rises" marked the beginning of his successful career in Futurism. He wrote to a friend about the artwork, "I attempted a great synthesis of labour, light and movement".

  • Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting

    This manifesto was written by Boccioni and was published in the Italian magazine Poesia. This inspired a generation of Futurist painters.

  • The Streets Enter the House

    Boccioni paints a large 1-metre by 1-metre artwork featuring many different colours, subjects, and shapes. He showed what was truly possible with Futurism and inspired many in the process

  • Dynamism of a Cyclist

    This artwork is a tribute to Marinetti's accident in 1908. It likely inspired Luigi Russolo's artwork with a similar name "Dynamism of a Car". This completes the 'story' which not only remembers Marinetti's accident but conveys the idea of old vs new transport.

  • Created his first Futurist sculpture

    "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" revolutionised what could be perceived as a futurist artwork. For the first time, this art was represented in the third dimension.

  • Died during WW1

    Boccioni died in Verona, Italy after falling off a horse during cavalry training. Futurism had lost possibly its most influential artist.