Umberto Boccioni in quotes, on painting & life in Futurism - free resource, Italian art history

Umberto Boccioni quotes - the famous Italian artist on his painting art and artistic life in Futurism art-scene - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in art history

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Umberto Boccioni was strongly involved with the dynamic ideas of Italian Futurism, as his quotes reveal. He mainly created paintings, but some years later he also explored Futurist sculpture.

Boccioni was one of the most passionate and later famous Futurist artists, defending the Futurist ideas in firm art-debates in Paris with the Cubists - criticizing them as ‘old & classical’. Boccioni was a leading editor of the Italian ‘Manifesto of Futurist Painters’, of 1910 - cooperating closely with the other Futurists Carra, Severini and Russolo. He died young.
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Some selected artist quotes of famous Italian artist Boccioni - as a short introduction on his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’The street enters the house’ - title of Boccioni’s famous Futurist painting, he made in 1911

• ’A time will come when the picture will no longer be enough. Its immobility will become an archaism with the vertiginous movement of human life. The eye of man will perceive colours as feelings within itself…’ - Boccioni’s quote from his lecture ‘La Pittura Futurista’ in Rome, Itlay, May 1911

• ’I work a lot but don’t seem to finish. That is, I hope what I am doing means something because I don’t know what I am doing. It’s strange and terrible but I feel calm. Today I worked non-stop for six hours on a sculpture… .Planes upon planes, sections of muscles, of a face and then? And the total effect? Does what I create live? Where will I end up?’ - quote of Boccioni, in a letter to his Futurist painter-mate Severini, c. 1912-13

• ’All shadows have their light, each shadow being an autonomous unit forming a new individuality with its own chiaroscuro: it is no longer a form that is half-shadow, half-light, as that hitherto been the case’ - quote from his text ‘Dynanisme plastique’, 1914
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  selection of free art-resources on the famous Italian Futurist Boccioni

  • extended biographical notes of Umberto Boccioni, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Boccioni
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Boccioni, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Umberto_Boccioni
  • images of Boccioni’s futurist painting and sculpture art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Boccioni
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