Umberto Boccioni
1882-1916
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Italian Futurist Artist, Founder of the Futurist Movement
Stylistically
influenced by the following painters and art movements;
Cubism,
Pointillism,
Duchamp,
Picasso,
Braque and
Juan Gris
Cause of Death - Boccioni enlisted in the army during World War I and
was trampled to death after falling from a horse on August 16th 1916. He
was 34.
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Umberto Boccioni Quotation
"A portrait, to be a work
of art, neither must nor may
resemble the sitter . . .
the painter has within
himself the landscapes he
wishes to produce. To depict
a figure one must not paint
that figure; one must paint
its atmosphere" -- Umberto
Boccioni
‘Futurist Painting:
Technical Manifesto’, by
Umberto Boccioni, 1910,
We declare:
1. That all forms of
imitation must be despised,
all forms of originality
glorified.
2. That it is essential to
rebel against the tyranny of
the terms “harmony” and
“good taste” as being too
elastic expressions, by the
help of which it is easy to
demolish the works of
Rembrandt, of Goya and of
Rodin.
3. That the art critics are
useless or harmful.
4. That all subjects
previously used must be
swept aside in order to
express our whirling life of
steel, of pride, of fever
and of speed.
5. That the name of “madman”
with which it is attempted
to gag all innovators should
be looked upon as a title of
honor.
6. That innate
complementariness is an
absolute necessity in
painting, just as free meter
in poetry or polyphony in
music.
7.That universal dynamism
must be rendered in painting
as a dynamic sensation.
8. That in the manner of
rendering Nature the first
essential is sincerity and
purity.
9. That movement and light
destroy the materiality of
bodies.
We fight:
1. Against the bituminous
tints by which it is
attempted to obtain the
patina of time upon modern
pictures.
2. Against the superficial
and elementary archaism
founded upon flat tints, and
which, by imitating the
linear technique of the
Egyptians, reduces painting
to a powerless synthesis,
both childish and grotesque.
3. Against the false claims
to belong to the future put
forward by the secessionists
and the independents, who
have installed new academies
no less trite and attached
to routine than the
preceding ones.
4. Against the nude in
painting, as nauseous and as
tedious as adultery in
literature.
We wish to explain this last
point. Nothing is immoral in
our eyes; it is the monotony
of the nude against which we
fight. We are told that the
subject is nothing and that
everything lies in the
manner of treating it. That
is agreed; we too, admit
that. But this truism,
unimpeachable and absolute
fifty years ago, is no
longer so today with regard
to the nude, since artists
obsessed with the desire to
expose the bodies of their
mistresses have transformed
the Salons into arrays of
unwholesome flesh!
We demand, for ten years,
the total suppression of the
nude in painting.
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