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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto Boccioni

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto Boccioni
  • Date: 1913; Milan, Italy  
  • Style: Cubism
  • Genre: sculpture
  • Media: bronze
  • Location: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US
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Although Boccioni was a painter first and foremost, his brief forays into sculpture are significant. The speed and fluidity of movement - what Boccioni called "a synthetic continuity" - is brilliantly captured in this bronze piece, with the human figure gliding through space, almost as if man himself is becoming machine, moving head-on into forceful winds. Possibly in homage to Auguste Rodin's Walking Man (1877-8), and the classical Greek statue Nike of Samothrace (220-190 B.C.), Boccioni left the sculpture without arms.

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