Umberto Boccioni – The Futurism

 Umberto Boccioni was the greatest exponent of Italian futurism. Born in Reggio Calabria in 1882, he moved to Rome at the age of eighteen.
 Here he began his artistic apprenticeship taking drawing lessons and attending the School of nude.
In 1907 he moved to Venice, and after other trips in Paris and in Russia, he settled in Milan.
The subjects of the paintings of this period, especially in the choice of suburbs under construction, anticipating the subsequent development of futurism.

In January of 1910 he met Marinetti, and the meeting was decisive in the subsequent development of his painting. Soon becomes the greatest Italian artist of the period. He participated at numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
From 1911 he devoted himself to sculpture, which comes quickly to exceptional results.
With the sculpture “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” (1913), Boccioni realizes one of the most famous sculptures in the absolute of this century

The statue became the symbol of man’s future, as imagined futurists: Icarus, half man, half machine, launched in the race to travel the world with strength and speed.
At the outbreak of World War he was called up.
On 17 August 1916, at the age of thirty-four, died of a minor accident while he was in the rear of the battlefields.

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