ART 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cubism, Umberto Boccioni, Polka
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Italy was very backward country in terms of industrialization, it had food shortages and in light of this he artists work with this reading from the past and encourage rushing to the future in a violent way. Idea of modernism, a violent break from the past, renewed interests in the futurist now. Boccioni is in milan at this point. Theme of horses was traditional during this time. Horses were a system of power in the old world. Milan going up in the background as buildings are getting taller. A visionary experience, using color and brush stroke as symbols of dynamism. Light, energy and movement have replaced the solidity in mass of the previous era. Calls to a violent and energetic new future. Not as fragmented as picasso, more identi able. Modern sitting going behind gure (who is his mother) More dynamic swirling forces that intellectual fragmentation. He sees it as a balance of idealized parts.
