1. Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism.
11 Facts About Giacomo Balla
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Giacomo Balla was concerned with expressing movement in his works, but unlike other leading futurists he was not interested in machines or violence with his works tending towards the witty and whimsical.
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Giacomo Balla was born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy, on 18 July 1871.
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Giacomo Balla was the son of Giovanni Balla, a chemist with an interest in photography, and Lucia Balla.
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Giacomo Balla's father died in 1878, after which Balla went to work in a lithography shop to help support his mother.
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Giacomo Balla was a signatory of the Futurist Manifesto in 1910.
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Giacomo Balla authored the "Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto", where he argued that one should attempt to capture "the dynamic sensation itself".
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Giacomo Balla began working as a sculptor, creating, in 1915, the well-known work titled Boccioni's Fist, based on 'lines of force'.
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Giacomo Balla's 1909 painting The Street Light typifies his exploration of light, atmosphere, and motion.
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Giacomo Balla accurately captures the motion of a dog straining to keep up with its owner by painting numerous legs, tails, and leashes.
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Giacomo Balla was concerned with expressing movement in his works, but unlike other leading futurists he was not interested in machines or violence with his works tending towards the witty and whimsical.