Inspiration: Headstrong Historic Futurist, Umberto Boccioni

Posted by Tiff on Jun 22nd, 2012 | 0 comments

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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. 1913, by Umberto Boccioni

Dynamism of a Soccer Player, 1913, by Umberto Boccioni

Umberto Boccioni (1882 – 1916) was the principle theorist of the Italian Futurist movement, and my personal favorite artist of the group. His paintings and sculptures embodied the Futurist concept of depicting a scene’s energy through time, space and movement.

These truly dynamic artworks inspire me with their joyful bursts of color and movements that appear to go beyond two dimensional representation, to tell you a whole story. This new way of redefining form and subjects has endless possibilities, and I’m just so surprised this movement took place 100 years ago, as to me it seems as relevant and “futuristic” as ever.

Unfortunately his life was cut short at age 33, by an accident during cavalry training for the war in 1916. I would’ve loved to see what else he would’ve done given more time to create. What do YOU think?

Below is one of my original paintings that you can see was heavily influenced by Boccioni’s sculpture above, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. The buyer of this painting of mine, Light Warrior, was fond of Boccioni’s work as well and identified the inspiration immediately!