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The Charge of the Lancers

Umberto Boccioni

The Charge of the Lancers

Umberto Boccioni
  • Date: 1915; Milan, Italy  
  • Style: Futurism
  • Genre: genre painting
  • Media: collage, cardboard, tempera
  • Location: Private Collection
  • Dimensions: 50 x 32 cm
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The Charge of the Lancers is the only known work by Boccioni that is devoted exclusively to the theme of war. Being a collage, Charge was also a rare departure for the artist in terms of medium. In previous works, Boccioni had used the figure of the horse as a symbol for work, but in this collage the horse becomes a symbol of war and natural strength, since it appears to be overcoming a horde of German bayonets. If, in fact, Boccioni was establishing the brute strength of the horse over man-made weapons, it would suggest a slight departure from the Futurist principles of Marinetti. This work also eerily prefigures Boccioni's own death from having been trampled by a horse.

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