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Name: Umberto Boccioni
Birth Date: October 19, 1882
Death Date: 1916
Place of Birth: Reggio Calabria, Italy
Place of Death: Sorte, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: artist, painter, sculptor

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Biography of Umberto Boccioni
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The Italian artist Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) was the leading theoretician of futurism, the most talented of its painters, and the creator of its first sculptures. He is considered the master of the innovative esthetic generated by the machine age....


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Umberto Boccioni (October 19, 1882 – August 16, 1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor and a member of the Futurist movement. Like other Futurists, his work centered on the portrayal of movement (dynamism), speed, and technology. Unsourced What we...


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Umberto Boccioni (October 19 1882 – August 16 1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor and a member of the Futurist movement. Like other Futurists, his work centered on the portrayal of movement (dynamism), speed, and technology. He was born in...


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The Nation
Boccioni: a retrospective. (Umberto Boccioni, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York)
11/07/1988: 2,418 words, approx. 8 pages
The Futurists viewed the present as an aesthetic battlefield from which they sought to drive the past with manifestoes and heroic artistic gestures. A present without a past would already be the future; and avid for historical acceleration, they undertook to erect the...
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The Washington Post
Boccioni's Silent Shouts; At the Met, a Retrospective On the Furious Futurist
10/08/1988: 1,865 words, approx. 6 pages
Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) loved much we've learned to hate-brawling and belligerence, self-promoting artists' hype, "uproar, outcry, blood." He gazed at flowered meadows and dreamed of loud machines. He loved factories and violence, smokestacks, crowds and cars. And speed, above all, speed. What he...
 


 

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