Umberto Boccioni was an influential Italian painter and sculptor.
14 Facts About Umberto Boccioni
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Umberto Boccioni helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures.
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Umberto Boccioni's works are held by many public art museums, and in 1988 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City organized a major retrospective of 100 pieces.
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Umberto Boccioni was born on 19 October 1882 in Reggio Calabria.
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Umberto Boccioni's father was a minor government employee, originally from the Romagna region in the north, and his job included frequent reassignments throughout Italy.
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Umberto Boccioni studied under the Liberty style poster artist Giovanni Mataloni.
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Umberto Boccioni had first visited the Famiglia Artistica, a society for artists in Milan, in 1901.
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In 1912 he exhibited some paintings together with other Italian futurists at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, and the following year returned to show his sculptures at the Galerie La Boetie: all related to the elaboration of what Umberto Boccioni had seen in Paris, where he had visited the studios of Cubist sculptors, including those of Constantin Brancusi, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Alexander Archipenko to further his knowledge of avant-garde sculpture.
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On 24 October 1915, Umberto Boccioni participated in the battle of Dosso Casina.
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In May 1916 Umberto Boccioni was drafted into the Italian Army, and was assigned to an artillery regiment at Sorte of Chievo, near Verona.
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Umberto Boccioni died the following day, age thirty-three, at Verona Military Hospital, and he was buried in the Monumental Cemetery of that city.
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Umberto Boccioni worked for nearly a year on La citta sale or The City Rises, 1910, a huge painting, which is considered his turning point into Futurism.
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Umberto Boccioni had fully parted with Divisionism, and now focused on the sensations derived from his observation of modern life.
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In 1914 Umberto Boccioni published his book, Pittura, scultura futuriste, which caused a rift between himself and some of his Futurist comrades.