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Umberto Boccioni foi um pintor e escultor italiano, do movimento futurista. É talvez o mais célebre futurista italiano.

Em 1901 transfere-se para Roma, juntamente com sua família. Realizou atividades de ilustrador e produtor de cartazes. Com cerca de vinte anos, conhece Gino Severini, com quem frequenta a Porta Pinciana, o estúdio do pintor divisionista Giacomo Balla.

Em 1906, vai a Paris, onde estuda a pintura impressionista e pós-impressionista. Posteriormente, visita a Rússia. Em abril de 1907, inscreve-se na Scuola libera del Nudo del Regio Istituto di Belle Arti, em Veneza. No final de 1907, instala-se em Milão. Durante esses anos de formação, visita muitos museus e galerias de arte Seus diários expressam sua admiração pela pintura renascentista - de Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Leonardo, Michelangelo e outros. No entanto, a grande arte renascentista tornar-se-á alvo preferencial dos ataques futuristas contra o "passadismo".Essa recusa da antiga arte não será, evidentemente, isenta de ambivalências. É exemplar o caso de Michelangelo, sobre o qual Boccioni escreve em La pittura futurista : "Só poderá negar Michelangelo o sublime ignorante futuro ou aquele que se rebela por tê-lo adorado demais! É, de fato, doloroso separar-se e negar esse gênio que foi, no passado, o maior abstrato que se expressou por meio do concreto!" Em Milão, após o encontro com os divisionistas e com Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, escreve, juntamente com Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla e Gino Severini, o Manifesto dos pintores futuristas , que se seguiu ao ''Manifesto del futurismo . O objetivo do artista moderno deveria ser, segundo os redatores do manifesto, libertar-se dos modelos e das tradições figurativas do passado para voltar-se resolutamente ao mundo contemporâneo, dinâmico, vivaz, em contínua evolução.

Em 1911, Boccioni encontra os cubistas em Paris. Embora influenciado por eles, Boccioni, que sempre evitou as linhas retas, criticava a arte cubista pela ausência de movimento.

Começa a realizar esculturas a partir de 1912. A maioria de suas obras era realizada em gesso, e muitas foram destruídas. A sua escultura Formas Únicas de Continuidade no Espaço é um marco do movimento futurista e da cultura do modernismo europeu, sinónimo de vanguarda e inovação, colocando-o na linha de frente da História de Arte da primeira metade do século XX. A escultura aparece no verso de algumas moedas italianas.

Boccioni publicou diversos textos sobre a estética futurista, destacando-se o livro Pittura scultura futuriste - dinamismo plastico, , que concentra todo o ideário artístico do movimento.

Em 1915 a Itália entra em guerra. Boccioni, interventista , se alista como voluntário juntamente com um grupo de artistas, alguns certamente influenciados pela tese enunciada por Marinetti, segundo o qual a guerra é "a única higiene do mundo".

Em 17 de agosto de 1916, durante exercícios militares em Chievo, frazione de Verona, seu cavalo se assusta diante de um caminhão. Boccioni é derrubado e tem o crânio fraturado. Morre nesse mesmo dia. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Outubro 1882 – 17. Agosto 1916
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Umberto Boccioni: Frases em inglês

“A time will come when the picture will no longer be enough. Its immobility will become an archaism with the vertiginous movement of human life. The eye of man will perceive colours as feelings within itself. Multiplied colours will not need form to be understood and paintings will be swirling musical compositions of great coloured gases, which, on the scene of a free horizon, will move and electrify the complex soul of a crowd that we cannot yet conceive of.”

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Quote in his lecture at the Associazione Artistica Internationale, Rome May 1911, Boccioni's lecture 'La Pittura Futurista', 1911; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 55.
1911

“[the Cubist painters who].. continued to paint objects motionless, frozen, and all the static aspects of Nature; they worship the traditionalism of w:Poussin, of w:Ingres, of Corot, ageing and petrifying their art with an obstinate attachment to the past, which to our eyes remains totally incomprehensible.”

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Fonte: 1912, Les exposants au public', 1912, pp. 2, 3.

“Get all the information you can about the Cubists, and about Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Go to Kahnweilers' (Paris art gallery). And if he's got photos of recent works – produced after I have left -, buy one or two. Bring us [the Futurists in Italy, like Boccioni himself] back all the information you can get.”

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Quote in Boccioni's letter to Gino Severini, staying in Paris in the Summer of 1911; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 27.
1911

“[to erect].... a new altar throbbing with dynamism as pure and exultant as those which were elevated to divine mystery through religious contemplation.”

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In Boccioni's letter to Nino Barbantini, 1913; as quoted in Futurism, ed. By Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008.
1913

“What was the truth for the painters of yesterday is but a falsehood today. We declare, for instance, that a portrait must not like the sitter... To paint a human figure, you must not paint it; you must render its surrounding [aura-like] atmosphere. Space no longer exists... Who can still believe in the opacity of bodies, since our sharpened and multiplied sensibilities has already penetrated the obscure manifestations of mediums? Why should we forget in our creations the doubled power of our sight, capable of giving analogous to those of X-rays?”

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As quoted in: John F. Moffitt (2003) Alchemist of the Avant-Garde: The Case of Marcel Duchamp, p. 87.
1910, Manifesto of Futurist Painters,' April 1910

“All shadows have their light, each shadow being an autonomous unit forming a new individuality with its own chiaroscuro: it is no longer a form that is half-shadow, half-light, as hat hitherto been the case.”

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In 'Dynanisme plastique' 1914, Boccioni; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 132
1914 - 1916

“A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations... To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.”

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As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 172.
1910, Manifesto of Futurist Painters,' April 1910

“In the first Manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin, we expressed our deep-rooted disgust with, our proud contempt for, and our happy rebellion against vulgarity, mediocrity, the fanatical and snobbish worship of all that is old, attitudes which are suffocating Art in our Country.”

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1910, Manifesto of Futurist Painters,' April 1910
Fonte: Rainey et al. (eds.) Futurism: An Anthology, (2009), p. 64 : Lead paragraph

“Let us explain again by examples. In painting a person on a balcony, seen from inside the room do not limit the scene to what the square of the window renders visible; we try to render the sum total of visual sensations which the person on the balcony has experienced; the sun-baked throng in the street, the double row of houses which stretch to right and left, the beflowered balconies etc. This implies the simultaneity of the ambient, and, therefore, the dislocation and the dislocation and dismemberment of objects, the scattering and fusion of details, freed from accepted logic and independent from one another. In order to make the spectator live in the center of the picture, as we express it in our manifesto the picture must be the synthesis of what one remembers and what one sees. You must render the invisible which stirs lives beyond intervening obstacles, what we have on the right, or the left, or behind us, and not merely the small square of life artificially compressed, as it were, by the wings of a stage set. We have declared in our manifesto that what must be rendered is the dynamic sensation, that is to say, the particular rhythm of each object, its inclination, its movement, or more exactly, its interior force.”

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Boccioni is referring in this quote to the 'Manifesto of Futurist Painters' of 1910, and its core Futurist concept of dynamic sensation; p. 47.
1912, Les exposants au public', 1912

“The harmony of the lines and folds of modern dress works upon our sensitiveness with the same emotional and symbolical power as did the nude upon the sensitiveness of the old masters.”

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as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 154.
1914 - 1916

“How is it possible still to see the human face pink, now that our life, redoubled by noctambulism, has multiplied our perceptions as colourists? The human face is yellow, red, green, blue, violet.”

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As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 174
1910, Manifesto of Futurist Painters,' April 1910