Umberto boccioni biography of martin

Umberto Boccioni — was the leading artist of Italian Futurism. Born in Reggio Calabria, Boccioni attended technical college in Catania, Sicily, and began his artistic career as a talented draftsman.

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He moved to Rome in to train as an artist, first taking drawing lessons with Giovanni Maria Mataloni, an artist who specialized in publicity posters. The commercial work also provided a small income to support his training as a fine artist. In , he entered the studio of the established painter Giacomo Balla and met fellow student Gino Severini.

Balla was known for Divisionism, an Italian style that shared the scientific basis of Pointillism , but with a more intuitive approach to applying strokes of color. He showed others at the Salone di Rifutati, a venue for artists who had been rejected by the official salon. Wanting to discover a city with a more established artistic avant-garde, Boccioni went to Paris in ; he found the city and its modern artists exhilarating.

The following year, he moved to Venice with stops in Russia, Warsaw, Vienna, and Padua , where he learned printmaking. His prints of this period depict friends, neighbors, and his mother They also hint at his burgeoning interest in the industrial city, which became a more constant subject after his move to Milan in August